Signs, Words, and Mystery
Signs are everything perceived or not, the vagueness that takes shape when you observe and think. Words form languages that emerge from our encounter with signs.
The mystery is the inevitable confusion and scope of the amount that escapes us or that is yet to be revealed.
Triadic Philosophy sees signs as the universal source of wakefulness, thought and therefore of action.
It sees words and language as the ever-changing and therefore always temporary index of our processing of signs.
It sees mystery as a clear summons to humility in the face of a reality we barely understand.
Triadic Philosophy is a simple, universal proposal. It suggests how we could think in such a way as to be relatively certain of not harming ourselves or others.
It seeks to find and utilize words that can be proved wise and relevant to our thriving as the masters of our own lives.
Signs, words, and mystery are a background. They are an inference from observation and experience. We have all perceived signs.
We have all experienced the frailty of language and the massive power of words. And if we have thought, we have become aware of how much we simply do not know and also of the powers we possess.
All thought is in signs, Charles Sanders Peirce tells us. It was he, after Locke and others, who understood the need to study signs. The venture is known as semiotics.
Language, from the creation of Babel to now, remains fascinating, perplexing and yet an almost violent contraction of the plenitude of signs. This is why words never or rarely suffice over time.
Signs never cease and words always seek to become frozen somehow. One answer to the mystery of life may be that of Triadic Philosophy.
Among words are there a few, say under 100, better around 25, that can serve as the prompts we all without exception need to master our lives to the extent that is possible?
Triadic Philosophy says yes. It is a method of thought that is sufficiently simple so that if you do not agree with its terms, you can change them. The world is moving from binary to triadic.
But that is another matter.
