Why Triadic Philosophy Makes the Most Sense

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The more I delve into  academic languages and philosophies, the more convinced I am  that Triadic Philosophy makes the most sense. Here are three main reasons.
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We desperately need an agreed basis for thinking, one that transcends disciplines, is not dependent  on reductive theories and that accepts certain basic premises, explicitly the utility of an open triadic pattern. for the ethical and aesthetic  achievement of  pragmaticist results.
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Hitherto we have not had  a universal philosophy that explicitly declares a reasonable hierarchy for carrying out thought processes, subject to the caveats in 1 above.
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Triadic Philosophy is an open source mechanism for universal thought whose hierarchy embraces universality itself  in the Root Triad Reality Ethics Aesthetics
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Think in Threes

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Think in Threes
Thinking is a willed process. Much of our action does not require thought. It is habit, learned first by thought, then accomplished without it.
All thinking is willed. That means there is a free decision only we can make, that we will train our minds on some aspect of Reality. It could be as insignificant as a view down the street. It becomes thought at the instant that  it is considered, turned over, admitted to zones within us where thinking gets done. Triadic Philosophy suggests  three such zones, hence that we think in threes. That view down the street might become a work of art. Accepted by us as such,  the result of this thinking.
I have described a gentle process of movement from Sign to Index to Symbol, if one wishes to make semiosis of  a simple event.
In Triadic Philosophy the root triad, Reality, Ethics and Aesthetics, comes with a set of simple rules for thinking that aspires to achieve truth and beauty, which is to say the aim of life. The starting point is simply to think. The payoff is thinking in threes.

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Triadic Philosophy - Where 1 2 3 Works and When It Does Not

Charles Sanders Peirce spent  a life of reasonable length  elaborating what he always thought. He thought, among other things, that  we move forward and that we are social,  collaborative sorts.
Foundationally, Peirce thought 1 2 3,  that is to say, in threes. And he structured the categories at the heart of philosophy as First Second and Third. By the time Peirce elaborated everything, he had a truckload of triads and a massive fleet of elaborations.
Peirce did not think we are ciphers who will follow even such a one as he. He thought we might build on his notions, as folk for two thousand years built on Aristotle - to the detriment of ethics, as Aristotle lacked a proper value system.
Now it is Promethian and unnecessary to so immerse ourselves in Peirce's Threes that we end up arguing about  what he may have meant  as a twenty year old  or as a seventy year old. He might say  I am  merely pointing to what an ordinary sort might infer from living life. Peirce said many things in passing that are, for the rock-ribbed quasi-nativist he was, oddly democratic, oddly tolerant, oddly helpful  and most certainly non-idolatrous.
The utility of 1 2 3,  if Peirce is right, (and he is) is we can (and do)  all work creatively  to evolve reality,  trying daily to get things right.
So, yes, read and benefit from Peirce. But, more than that, use your bean. Conjure up more of the magic he was on to.
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Triadic Philosophy - Our Three Separate Universes

+ Triadic Philosophy thinks in threes Reality Ethics Aesthetics This initial triad serves to anchor an endless flow of triads that refer back in some way to the implicit beginning point  Reality The inevitable  challenge to Reality is Ethics The active and measurable  and apposite effort to materialize a response in the world is Aesthetics + Triadic Philosophy accepts three separate universes First The first the universe that is contiguous with the self Our common universe as structured individually  as consciousness or bodymind We often take this first to be our only universe It is in fact the theater of Reality's progress  through Ethics to Aesthetic realization Ultimately What is achieved in this universe individually and collectively is the making of  progress in history Second The second universe is our proof that there is something out there that is not us It is the blunt truth that we take to be real It IS real It defies those philosophic premises that limit reality to consciousness It is resilient matter stuff rock tables mountains oceans It summons the individual to explore  to exploit  to contemplate to represent  to understand to befriend It is what exists within our gravitational field Third The third universe is beyond our capacities to fathom  though it is the object of countless assertions It presents us with an existential reason to remain humble in the face of mystery It invites humility or if you prefer iconoclasm + Idolatry takes many forms but among the most common is the tendency to shrink universes and see things in terms literally  at odds with Reality It takes only a bit of common sense to accept the truth in the three universes described here Stephen's Remarkable Kindle Store

How Should The East Coast Prepare for the Inevitable

+ Until we move from binary to triadic thinking from pragmatism to pragmaticism from proselytizing to universalism we will be doomed to make the wrong decisions and celebrate them as master achievements Thus Manhattan contemplates building big flood blockades that will protect Wall Street and inundate Brooklyn or some such silliness + The brutal truth is that we are already doomed to an ongoing deluge and will  be doomed to the current painful agonies until we answer affirmative to the following proposition The solution to flooding and tidal inundation is to either create or move to higher ground and build our dwellings there + The pragmaticist obligation is to stop lavishing attention on the sexy notion  of  diverting future tidal inundations with monstrous blockades (the binary way) and instead to assume that any level above an anticipated inundation level is the level at which it is safe to create places to be occupied by children and women and men and pets From this premise many fine premises can be elaborated + IMAGE Top First is the Sign of Unity in Diversity Second is the cold reality of our penchant for inundation Third is the happy intended result of a creative collision of First and Second issuing in specific new solutions to the problem of higher ground  Stephen's Remarkable Kindle Store

The logician need not decide if there is such a thing as reality

We cannot hide from ourselves that there are objects  very nearly like real things We are obliged to suppose that there is knowledge  embodied in some form and that there is inference and that one embodiment of knowledge affects another
I see in this parsing of Feibleman on Peirce 1969 83-84 a clear suggestion of Peircean threes and one of the remarkable instances in which  the wonder of Peirce can be apprehended The key word for me is suppose After suppose in the text comes the parenthetical ("it need not assert") a delicious reminder of the degree of supposition (vagueness, musement) involved in all thinking
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We all are reasoners from cradle to the grave

We all are reasoners from cradle to the grave
Our suppositions are not true until they're proved
And even then no truth is but a temporary fix
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Joplin Tornado Exemplified Need for Peircean Journalism

Updated February 16, 2012

Joplin Tornado: Shocking Photos & Videos of Destruction in Missouri - The Daily Beast : "A tornado set down in Joplin, Missouri, on Sunday, killing 90 people. The disastrous storm took a path that was a mile wide at some points, and emergencies have been declared on both the state and local level. According to the NOAA, the Joplin twister is the deadliest single tornado since 1953."

I think news just took a u-turn. People literally make the news now. People are cameras and sound. The money used to send a zillion reporters everywhere is wasted.

The job of reporting should make a u-turn into Peirce thirds. That is a kind of thinking. Moving past binary to looking for serious solutions based on 1. what happened and 2. what challenge it illuminates. 3. therefore we will experiment by ...

With video's like these there is no need for professionals on scene.

Charles Sanders Peirce - A Collection of Threes

Threes contain monads and dyads
Triads for thoughtBeat BinaryTriangles being infinitely expandable 
The first is the vague and undefinable realityThe second somehow modifies and adds to the firstThe third brings the first and second to a point of action actuality manifestation hypothesis experiment Peirce's is a progressive evolutionary realistic philosophy
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Possible triangles, as 
1 Quality

2 Relation              3  Representation
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Icons

Indices      Symbols
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Terms

Propositions       Arguments
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Hypothesis (Abduction)

Induction                     Deduction 
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Sign

Object         Interpretant
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Speculative Grammar

Critic              Methodeutic
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Phenomenology

Normative Science       Metaphysics
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Aesthetics

Ethics               Logic
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Feeling-qualities

Sense of reaction         Sense of generalization
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Mind

Matter             Evolution
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Chance 

Law              Habit-taking
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Firstness

Secondness          Thirdness
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Idea

Brute Actuality   The sign's soul
(Possible triangles drawn from Brent, Charles Sanders Peirce, (1993) 331-332
ADDENDUM
Here is a list of the triads in seqoential lines

1 Quality 2 Relation 3  RepresentationIcons  Indices SymbolsTerms Propositions ArgumentsHypothesis (Abduction)  Induction  Deduction Sign  Object  InterpretantSpeculative Grammar Critic  MethodeuticPhenomenology  Normative Science  MetaphysicsAesthetics  Ethics LogicFeeling-qualities  Sense of reaction  Sense of generalizationMind  Matter EvolutionChance  Law Habit-takingFirstness  Secondness ThirdnessIdea  Brute Actuality The sign's soul
And as firsts, seconds and thirds.
FIRSTS
Quality, Icons, Terms, Hypothesis (Abduction). Sign, Speculative grammar, Phenomenology, Aesthetics, Feeling-qualities, Mind, Chance, Firstness, Idea
SECONDS
Relation, Indices, Propositions, Induction, Object, Critic, Normative Science, Ethics, Sense of reaction, Matter, Law, Secondness, Actuality THIRDS
Representation, Symbols, Arguments, Deduction, Interpretant, Methodeutic, Metaphysics, Logic, Sense of generalization, Evolution, Habit-taking, Thirdness, The sign's soul
NOTE
In some respects this last is the most useful as it easily enables one to select firsts, seconds and thirds in any order - for example Sign, Proposition, Generalization or Aesthetics, Actuality, Habit-taking. Each cluster suggests firstness, secondness and thirdness.