Shrinking Metaphysics
Peirce establishes that the cart has been generally before the horse. If we want logic to be first and metaphysics to follow, we had better shelve Aristotle and recognize that we are in a minority. Whatever has happened to metaphysics in the last four centuries, it was pretty much bedrock Aristotle up to then and as suggested below the cart continues in the lead overall.
Now why does it make a difference if metaphysics precedes logic? Obviously it is a brief for supposition-based philosophy. Such philosophy has no more credibility than the suggestion that before Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon there was a Man there.
Triadic Philosophy argues that
logic is what follows from.
Unless logic is sound there can be no proper thinking.
Logic is the default of sane existence.
Now the premise of this work is that logic is goodness. In other words, reality is structured so that truth, beauty, freedom and love are the underlying tendency and reason for everything that is.
This sounds terribly metaphysical, right? But ask yourself what is the difference between logic and metaphysics..
Logic is truth, fact, experience. Logic is provable.
Triadic Philosophy is derived from factual evidence. No we did not witness the Resurrection. Nor do we believe the tales of those who do seances. If we credit telepathy, we insist that there be some authentication of it.
The fact upon which Triadic Philosophy bases its logic is the experience of young persons who proved to function in ways deemed helpful, tolerant and democratic resulting from an intense exposure to the stories of Jesus recorded in the Gospel of Mark. The values noted here were underlined by a general value which I call non-idolatry. It is an inclination to iconoclasm, a temperament that is skeptical of authority that cannot pass the test of the active values cited.
It is not a far stretch to infer from this simple but seismic reality that history has been advanced over time by the works generated from practice of these values.
And it is not a far stretch to assume that C. S. Peirce, to make his philosophy consonant with the Pragmaticism and its emphasis on practical effects of a consideration would be at least open to the argument that tolerance, helpfulness and democracy, buttressed by non-idolatry give heft to his own suggestion that the tendency of reality is in the direction of what he called the agapic.
It would be unfair to place such weight on Peirce without giving the best reference I can find to enable exploration of his thinking.
Charles Peirce, “Evolutionary Love”, at ARISBE: THE PEIRCE GATEWAY http://buff.ly/1P91ClR
Peirce: CP 2.37 Cross-Ref:††
37. Some of the most celebrated logics, however, are written from the points of view of metaphysical sects. The Organon of Aristotle, the title which the collection of his logical treatises received, probably at the hands of Andronicus, the Rhodian,†2 who put them together about 60 B.C.†P1 opens with a metaphysical book, the Categories, or Predicaments, although in that same treatise Aristotle evidently bases the metaphysics upon a grammatico-logical analysis of the Greek sentence. To this book was usually prefixed the treatise of Porphyry on the Predicables. About half the scholastic works on logic are commentaries on the collection of books so formed. These works, therefore, base logic on metaphysics to some extent.
