Triadic Philosophy: Little Details of Knowledge Matured
All statements have logic or not. Logic tends toward truth. Logic tends toward what works. Logic leaves a sense that it follows with the hearer. Logic that is a lie is eventually exposed. Logic that is based on a hypothesis may eventually be adjusted and corrected. All statements have logic or not and only time and the concensus of a community can say what is logical and what is not.
Such a collection of statements is necessary to suggest that Triadic Philosophy has at least some of the qualifications needed to be seen as logical. Over time what Peirce calls “little details of knowledge” have finally acquired a certain maturity. Perhaps the most salient detail of all is the awareness that we live within a penumbra of mystery. That mystery is not merely an as yet unexplored beyond lost in interstellar space. It is as close as my fingers or my eye or the cloth of my shirt. Try as anyone may the smallest elements of matter, their freedom, their flexibility, their makeup is mystery. The vagaries and workings of our mind. The entire fabric of reality is a great mix of what we know and what we do not know. And this must be the foundation of any effort to speak truth about our situation.
The qualification of Triadic Philosophy is the fruit of slow labor in many fields. The field of the psyche where the spectrum-like nature of who we are is perceived. The field of social activism where the limitations of us all have been registered. The field of “art” where the fiction of the “art world” has been shattered. The field of communication where the banality of binary culture seems to be no less than in the field of politics. The field of the academy where the notion of education appears to be without mooring, though gems of insight continually rise to the surface in isolation from one another.
Broad generalization may be taken as the evil twin of the apposite aphorisms and memorial maxims that lie at the center of Triadic Philosophy.
Reality is all.
Ethics without aesthetics is impotent.
Aesthetics without ethics is ugly.
Consciousness is the seat of freedom.
History is the fruit of acting on values.
Values are a spectrum from the greatest goods to the worst evils.
Ethics is based on values, not virtues.
These are among such reflections.
Peirce: CP 2.14 Cross-Ref:††
14. Broad generalization is glorious when it is the inevitable outpressed juice of painfully matured little details of knowledge; but when it is not that, it is a crude spirit inciting only broils between a hundred little dogmas, each most justly condemning all the others. It is the usual fruit of sloth. A reader who is not disposed to work upon logic as slowly, as minutely, as laboriously as he would upon any other subject whatever — at the very least — simply will have to go without learning much about the theory of reasoning from any source.
