Triadic Philosophy What Is Required of a Philosophy

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A philosophy needs to start by saying what is  universal and true, what things apply to all. The most damaging word in philosophy is of A philosophy of this or of that wrenches philosophy from an obligation to say what is universal in every situation. The result is a distortion of reality. The traditional name for such distortion is idolatry In Triadic Philosophy,  Reality is the foundation.  It is universal.  Its companions are Ethics and Aesthetics. All enterprises are in the pale of reality. They do not transcend it. They are finite, open to alteration,  subject to continuity. Logic, mathematics, science, theology, psychology all fall under Reality, not beyond it. All are subject to the universal sway of Ethics and Aesthetics.
The truth of Triadic Philosophy rests in its capacity to establish  its premises to the point that they are  acknowledged to be accurate and therefore consistent with truth and beauty because they properly represent Reality
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Triadic Philosophy - The Truth of Reality

Unless Reality is understood to be the beginning point philosophy founders on the confusion between what is  meta or methodological premise elaboration and what is real  truthful  dependable  Triadic Philosophy holds that Reality is more that what we have held to be real (we hold most of what we "know" to be so) Reality is also every sign thought or idea  that rises in our minds There is no distinction in Triadic Philosophy between the thought of this keyboard I am tapping which has material substance and which most would concede to be real and my idea of keyboards or anything else that flits through my mind nanosecond by nanosecond It is all Reality But that is NOT all Reality is also the realm of truths that we may not yet have thought  signs we may not yet have perceived and ideas we may not have thought of yet It is at this point that Triadic Philosophy asserts ontological premises that are held to be consistent with logic and reason and validated by experiment and experience To give merely two examples Will exists within Reality Freedom exists within Reality The truth  (and reality for us and within us)   of Reality is the entire subject matter of Triadic Philosophy
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Triadic Philosophy in A Single Image

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Triangle is infinite Binary a dead end We choose the indefinite Heading for that next bend

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Triadic Philosophy Commentary - Truth Is Reality

Triadic Philosophy asserts that everything we can know is  both explained by and located within Reality and that we know by thinking in threes and that the fundamental triad is Reality Ethics and Aesthetics
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Truth is Reality The problem is that Reality is not merely what we can measure and know and identify as fact or as something approaching a complete and received thought Reality is also whatever it may be beyond our capacity to comprehend it yet If we are to speak of first things we must see that truth itself is at once identifiable and beyond immediate comprehension If one asks on what basis one designates Reality true or factual one can add up three strong inferences and suggest they amount to a reasonable deduction The inferences are that we individually are a universe that there is a material universe  that we know by our encounter with it and that there is a beyond  which encompasses what we do not  or cannot know
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So truth may be identified  by agreement as to fact which means that truth involves assent At the same time  much that we take to be true is nothing but supposition Within Triadic Philosophy the presence of Ethics regards "truth" under the sign of non-idolatry and applies the active values of helpfulness democracy and tolerance The third active experimental realm Aesthetics  denotes action which  in its winsome or unassuming nature has a grace rarely present when lies masquerade as truth
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Triadic Philosophy Commentary - Memory Ethics Forgiveness

In Triadic Philosophy whatever  rises up is a sign or word and often it is a memory if only fleeting That memory is real  it's in the now and if we choose  we wrestle with it embrace it allow it to become real to us When we are mired in the past memories can be overwhelming The stage at which we wrestle with memory I call Ethical What that means is that we subject our thoughts  to tests to blunt questioning to the process of being disturbed or troubled So for example a memory seems to fester and in our thinking we seek to come to terms There might be grief or regret or anger
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Now let me introduce  an element of this philosophy I hold that forgiveness is the most iconoclastic of actions It has even been a capital offense Forgiveness can only achieved by the forgiver It is only achieved when the forgiver at the same moment seeks to be forgiven Forgive us for the wrongs we've done as we forgive those who do wrong Forgiveness clears the deck Forgiveness lets the past rest in peace
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Because we are fallible sorts  forgiveness is never unwelcome  in any thought process We forgive wrongs done and in the bargain receive forgiveness The proper place for this is the Second the Ethical When forgiveness occurs it paves the way for a beautification process The Aesthetic is the completion of the root triad of Triadic Philosophy Reality Ethics Aesthetic We move forth in the now settled new accepting what it is unshadowed  unimpeded
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Thus does what is Real become reality   Stephen's Remarkable Kindle Store



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Pinterest - An Admiring Bit of Free Verse

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+ Pinterest pricks at my consciousness awakening the inner eye to the vast community that spans this holy globe Pinterest makes mincemeat of the proposition that we are alone Pinterest reminds us that art is in the eye I see in Pinterest the future of the world harmonious selection of winning designs that make for democratic choices available to all Pinterest like Twitter lives  on the strength of its profound simlicity and its openness to universal visions +

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Triadic Philosophy - Wish Reality Actuality

+ Triadic Philosophy is an easily acquired mode of thinking It sees things in triads or threes like this initial one Reality Ethics Aesthretics It starts with the First  a sign or word or symbol or icon something rising up in consciousness To even have life  the First must encounter the Second which is human reality AKA blunt truth AKA an interpretation of the firstl term or sign Finally there is the Third the recognition of the initial dyad seeing it as a summons to experiment or act + THE IMAGES ABOVE + First Wish (A wish in this triad is raw and  unexamined an impulse an urge) + Second Reality (Reality confronts the wish and seeks to explain it in terms related to intention and  feasibility to what we call reality) + Third Actuality (Actuality results from linking wish with reality  It defines the initial wish in terms of what one actually desires It often turns out that the wish must now be scaled to results at once more possible and  on analysis  more pleasing when realized) Stephen's Remarkable Kindle Store

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Stacked Images - Locating Sign Theory in Triadic Philosophizing

Triadic thinking in the philosophy I am unpacking accepts a simple discipline All triads refer back to the original triad of Reality Ethics Aesthetics To be explicit all triads begin with the First which is the vague but complete realm of signs the Second which is the blunt truth that rises from  our fallibility our finitude our need to interpret the signs and the Third which is always the product  of the first two morphing into rules or hypotheses or intentioons from whence proofs and habits arise so that our being here mirrors reality STACKED IMAGES - SIGN THEORY Top image  First is Reality (Vague indistinct penumbral)
Second is Clarity (the process of identifying a sign and  putting it into words and wrestling with its value and prospects for realization)
Third is Activity (habits rules hypotheses proofs) Stephen's Remarkable Kindle Store

Intimacy is one way we confirm the reality of now

This age is the age of now Which is nice because reality is also now The past is memory The future's possibility and in the now we live and move and have our being Ontology is now and many other things are now whether we know it or not Wherefore we accept and live within a vast penumbra of vagueness Wherefore we are given means to  fix ourselves within the penumbra Wherefore we have intimacy with ourselves and with others Wherefore we have kisses
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With Barack Obama we face reality With George W. Bush we did not

Reality is paying your debts Reagan and George W. Bush raised the debt  Barack Obama has done his best to reduce it Reality is recognizing a dumb war and not paying for war on a credit card and recognizing the painful cost of war by giving priority to the needs of those who return George W. Bush engaged in dumb wars paid on a credit card hid the image of pain and death from Americans and now his party the GOP has spit in the face of all veterans by failing to pass the President's jobs bill  Reality is the gold standard of logic It is arriving at a correct and true conclusion The capacity to see reality and deal with it  is the highest virtue a President can possess  The craziness of  the present season can be explained by pointing to the unreal premises of virtually everything the GOP says Lies they are and the most recent the father of those lies is George W. Bush But they are also contradictions of reality and ultimately reality proves out When it does we win Stephen's Remarkable Kindle Store

There's a little Higgs boson in everyone.

BBC News - LHC: Higgs boson 'may have been glimpsed':

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The science is this IMO. The only identity that has been vouchsafed to us is not something that can be named. Oh we can name it if we like. Higgs boson. is fine. But it avails not. Why? Because the One who is the One lives and moves and is indeed life itself no less mysterious that what/who we know ourselves to be. There's a little Higgs boson in everyone. Jesus suggested we call him Abba.



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Dealing with a plethora of information is hardly new

The cave folk of Lascaux were no less hobbled than we with the plethora of information out thereOur brains are used at miniscule percentagesGeniuses are people afflicted with the bug of universalityThey connect everything they see because they believe it is connectedWe do not know that exactlyWe could slough off what does not work for example and be better off perhapsThe whole argument about real and virtual is also a red herringWhat hits back when you hit it is what is realThe rest is perceptionPeirce appeals to me because he allows for impressions to be seen as signs  And he suggests that signs bump up against one thing and anotherAnd that when we connect the sign and the bump we move toward a habitHabits are the hypotheses we test until we know if they work or not
We can rest easy amid the plethora with two salient thoughtsGod does not play diceTrue but that does not obviate chance and wiggles in the sphere of things We live in an evolving reality Dogmatism is anything and everything in every sphere that overreaches the penumbra of vagueness that encompasses our existence 
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Murdoch comeuppance is in the works

News of the World Hack Scandal: Knives Out Against Rupert Murdoch - The Daily Beast: "David Cameron and the British press are denouncing the News of the World as new details of the tabloid’s illegal tactics come to light. William Underhill reports on the loss of Murdoch’s clout." But generally the rich find a way. However if the GOP continues to play Russian Roulette with no real knowledge of consequences, they may do the rich a deeper blow than Cameron can deal Murdoch. Maybe the poor will inherit the earth after all. We have less to lose.


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