Triadic Philosophy is Consummately Realistic

Ah, just when one thinks two prose channels may be drifting apart, they converge again and all is well. Good wins.

Tis how I feel today reading the below. Look at its few words. Not only does the greatest philosophical mind since Aristotle remind us that the world is real but also that symbols are as well. Now Peirce has not come to Triadic Philosophy’s revolutionary “Reality is all” or to its triad Reality Ethics Aesthetics, We are an outlier, like Peirce, but have not the math you see.

All we do is think in ordinary terms and write with hopes of convincing the ordinary reader that good does eventually win.

And when it does, it is not some ephemeral thing. It is real.

It is in the actions and utterances of real people.

And the symbols it parses are a spectrum from the best to worst.

And eventually, if we are correct, the lower part begins to disperse and fade and be gone. Swish.

There actually is this symbol and that too.

For without one, one cannot symbolize.

And without being able to do that, we cannot imagine or create. We are mindless vacancies.

But that’s not so, is it?

No.

Peirce himself had a triad

Icon Index Symbol.

It is the parent of

Reality Ethics Aesthetics.

Have a nice day. Or a happy dream.

Peirce: CP 2.114 Cross-Ref:††

114. But whatever be the kind and degree of our logical assurance that there is any real world, external or internal, that same kind and degree of assurance we certainly have that there not only may be a living symbol, realizing the full idea of a symbol, but even that there actually is one.