Triadic Philosophy - Integrating My Categories with Pierce's Icons, Indices, Symbols

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Introductory Note The best introduction far and away to Charles Sanders Peirce's semiotics (theory of signs) is my Kindle book The Essential Peirce Selected Philosophical Writings Volume Two beginning at Chapter Three and continuing. The short text below derives from reading this and catching my first true glimmer of  the utility of Peirce's division of signs into Icon, Index and Symbol. As he writes, Peirce indicates how fluid logic is and, implicitly, the infantile state of our intellectual efforts. It is enough to induce humility among academics if not among those of us who natter at them.  
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The root triad Reality, Ethics, Aesthetic seems  naturally to segue with Charles Sanders Pierce's terms for the division of signs. The Peirce triad for signs is icons, indices and symbols. The images, thoughts and ideas which arise in Reality are icons. We create and name them. They point to something. In the realm of Ethics we find indices.  They are the elements needed for understanding the sign. This may constitute a blunt truth, even a barrier,  to the sign we are considering. The fruit of the triadic process is in Aesthetics our symbolic realm of activation. The symbol so derived becomes our reality.
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I do not seek to represent  Peirce but to observe points where his thinking may - I stress may - amplify what is essentially  an original philosophy that integrates inspirations traceable to Peirce, Assagioli, Nietzsche and the Gospel of Mark. Applying the sign divisions icon, index and symbol to my root triad adds depth and functionality. To understand this existentially seems to me a serious advance.
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