Triadic Philosophy - Is There Any Truth in Triads?

Is there any truth in triads Is a triad only in the eye of the beholder Or is there a universal basis for assuming  the usefulness of triadic thought I would never make a claim for sentence three or say yes to sentence one and  no two sentence two were it not for my encounter with the semiotic thought of Charles Sanders Peirce When I speak of Peirce I am careful to say I express my own conclusions Many great thinkers can be taken in many ways The semiotic I derive from Peirce (and by semiotic I mean the landscape of his thought and the process by which it attains logic) is triadic Peirce does not think in any other way Peirce thinks truth in my view So I would say truth lies in triads In thinking in threes  one can arrive at truths one can use It makes sense to see  the very process of thinking as triadic
What does this mean It involves a First Second and Third First in my view is what rises up  every time our mind works the thing we settle on (we settle on many things and anything can be a First by virtue of encounter with a Second) The Second is something that jostles the first that insists something that cautions or strikes  or encounters with a blunt truth (I do not subscribe Hegel's Thesis Antithesis Synthesis as the root of all triads) But a Second does have elements of Antithesis My declension of the Third results from the interaction of First and Second not as a Synthesis but as Experiment A Third is always action a guess that is chosen a hypothesis tried out
When one does things by rote  one has already completed  one or more triadic processes and arrived at a habit Much of our living is simply  moving from one habit to another We settle on habits But we move forward from wherever we are on the basis of thirds
I close this excursion by saying that I subscribe to the triadic mode because a monad has no reality for me and a dyad is a binary that stops at off and on at either or  at yes or no or at Internet's (double bind) OK?
Consciousness human consciousness  is inherently triadic Starting always from the First I call the First Reality the known and unknown ground of being the source of all thoughts signs and words The Second I call Ethics warnings related to ontologoical values tolerance helpfulness democracy and non-idolatry The Third I call Aesthetics the realm of action appearance doing  which at one extreme can be ugly and false and the other true and beautiful
The journey through this triad is universal whether we acknowledge it or not Awareness of this revolutionizes philosophy in this century It elevates will (responsibiity) to the center of Reality values to the center of Ethics  and Aesthetics to the very center of actualization
In this century without the willed choice  of the values noted above and their acceptance universally and the creation of societies that venerate what is true and beautiful over ugliness greed conflict and rampant harm we are doomed to fall on the rusty sword that is the remnant of past philosophies religions and understandings of society 

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