Triadic Philosophy definitely begins with the individual
observer. And with whatever comes up that he or she decides to attend to or
consider. For example, I went for a stroll just now and thought and what came
up was Peirce List. All I do when something comes up is run the terms of my
ethics (aka index) through my head and maybe say something as to how they seem
to apply. Tolerance, democracy, helpfulness, non-idolatry. Then I utter in a
mildly mantra-ish way to myself the linked terms truth-beauty and beauty-truth.
Finally, I ask myself for an expression or action and clearly this is placing
truth and beauty at the top of my sense of the aesthetic and therefore of
active performance of life.
I mention this as a prelude to saying that there is no effort on
my part ever to correlate, synch or otherwise harmonize my work with that of
Peirce. There are vast areas of the 70,000 pages of Peirce extant that are
either unfamiliar or beyond my comprehension. In particular, I have found
Peirce's categories and terminology to impose a burden which would not be
bearable if I felt it was the only way I could benefit from what I do grasp
what he is saying. My deficiencies in math and related fields are so
pronounced that I cannot read many of the posts that come to the Peirce and related
lists. So it should be obvious that what I am propounding is first of all an
original method of improving life by the use of memorial maxims (CSP's term)
and secondly, over time, an expanding effort to justify some precepts that may
or may not be Peirce-related - among them realism, continuity or in my terms
chronology and syntropy by which I mean the possible trumping of entropy..
Having said all that, I would add that a person more familiar
with Pierce than I would be in the best position to create any harmonies that
may be shown to exist.
Finally, I do have one point of synthesis with Peirce. My
mother's family and the Pers family arrived in Watertown, MA, at the same time,
perhaps on the same boat. There is merely supposition here, but I was struck in
learning several things about Peirce that resonated with my own life, not the
least in terms of oddly outsider resumes rising from lives of considerable
privilege.
