Symbols Are Secondary in Triadic Philosophy

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When I say something is secondary in Triadic Philosophy, I mean most often a word or term that is of relative unimportance.

The goal of Triadic Philosophy is the reduction of harm. The goal of Triadic Thinking is expressions and actions useful in minimizing harm.

Some words that are central to this effort:

Reality

Ethics

Aesthetics

Tolerance

Helpfulness

Democracy

Non-idolatry

Truth Beauty

Expression

Action

Freedom

Love

Symbol is a secondary term, part of the Peircean triad Icon, Index, Symbol. These words originally suggested to me Reality, Ethics and Aesthetics.

Symbol suggests a representation that possesses clarity. In other words, it suggests what it is meant to suggest. There are other meanings.

My own opinion is that things get muddy when too many meanings are assigned to any term, especially if they are meant as aspects of various categories. At some point a progression turns into a maze.

An often ignored understanding of Triadic Philosophy is that much out there and inside us is mystery. Masses of knowledge remain undiscovered. I find it impossible to absorb and work with all of the terms we might argue are relevant to understanding logic.

I share texts like the one below to show where Peirce is going.

My goal remains to show that Triadic Philosophy, which leads to good, is logical.

Peirce: CP 2.95 Cross-Ref:††

§2. TERMS, PROPOSITIONS, AND ARGUMENTS

95. Symbols, and in some sort other Signs, are either Terms, Propositions, or Arguments.†1 A Term is a sign which leaves its Object, and a fortiori its Interpretant, to be what it may. A Proposition is a sign which distinctly indicates the Object which it denotes, called its Subject, but leaves its Interpretant to be what it may. An Argument is a sign which distinctly represents the Interpretant, called its Conclusion, which it is intended to determine. That which remains of a Proposition after removal of its Subject is a Term (a rhema) called its Predicate.†1 That which remains of an Argument when its Conclusion is removed is a Proposition called its Premiss, or (since it is ordinarily copulative) more usually its Premisses. . . .