Lorite

Lorite is a term of outlook within the mathic community, tied to the order known as the Lorites. In ordinary speech it can mean either a member of that order or, more loosely, someone taking a Lorite stance.

Definition and Usage

• Refers to the Lorites' habit of challenging claims of novelty and tracing ideas to earlier attestations.
• In casual self-description, avout may use it to label an approach: preferring to consult established writings and authorities before embarking on open-ended theorizing.

Associations and Outlook

• Emphasizes careful scholarship, citation, and precedent-hunting over invention-for-its-own-sake.
• Often invoked as a check against wasted effort: "find what better thinkers have already written" captures the spirit.

Context and Relationships

• Closely associated with Saunt Lora and propositions attributed to her about the rarity of truly new ideas.
• Used within discussions among avout to contrast research styles and to signal skepticism toward claims of originality.

Current Status

The term is in active conversational use in the present account, functioning both as a label for a person aligned with the order and as shorthand for a methodology grounded in prior scholarship.