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The Tao Produced One; The One Produced Two; The Two Produced Three And The Three Produced All Things.
by _0ffh 3y ago
The Tao Produced One;
The One Produced Two;
The Two Produced Three
And The Three Produced All Things.
- Shorel 3y agoSounds very close to the firstness, secondness and thirdness categories from Charles Sanders Peirce. (Which I think are nothing but nonsense from a madman =)
- User23 3y agoHe was an awfully pragmatic madman. He also discovered the universal and existential quantifiers independently of Frege, albeit a few years later. No offense intended, but to the extent his work feels mad to you, it might be a “you problem.” That said, he never did reduce firstness, secondness, and thirdness to unity to his own satisfaction either. His work is truly tantalizing. Oh and abduction has had some conceptual influence too. Sad that the Arisbe fansite got deleted.
- Shorel 3y agoI agree this must be a "me" problem. I just have never found these three "universal" categories useful for anything whatsoever except for a semiotics class in university where he was one of the study subjects. Umberto Eco on the other hand... every single thing he wrote was immediately interesting and useful. Or funny. His Lolita's parody, Granita, was Pratchett and Adams levels of funny. He was awesome.
- narinxas 3y agowe can be more precise now: the three produced the equation, which pretended that all things were (could be) equalized into equivalence. they called this algebra and parised some monotheistic god; they called this magic and GOTO one.
- smegsicle 3y agothats funny i always heard it was an origin with two other orthogonal roles unless youre a dirty filioquist