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ho humm .. when differentiating anything you focus on a particular, you make
a distinction and that process creates an initial distinction of ONE vs NOT
ONE aka MANY.
The ONE is now the context within which you do further analysis. If you do
not retain this context then all that follows is 'meaningless'.
Dichotomies, Trichotomies, X-otomies, as I have repeatedly stated both on
and offline to Dees come out of the MANY, the NOT ONE, ~A.
It is here that we start to disect the ONE and the initial process means
applying the SAME method but now within the context of the ONE. IOW we
always retain a sense of the CONTEXT within which we are interpreting, the
universe of discourse within which we make A/~A cuts ad infinitum.
This disection process can be seen in nature; consider light. WHITE light is
broken down into its harmonics, aka colours, and in doing so we find that
WITHIN THE CONTEXT of white light we have your TRIADIC format of
RED:GREEN:BLUE. But this is NOT the COMPLETE story since ANY context has its
negation as a harmonic. In light it is BLACK and this takes us into another
TRIAD, of cyan, magenta, and yellow (not 'precise' though, mixing them comes
out as a sort of muddy brown so we cheat and add a bit of black!)
So we have:
WHITE - RED, GREEN, BLUE
BLACK - CYAN, MAGENTA, YELLOW
oow, look, 8 states to give a complete picture (!). Trying to work with
threes without any reference to the context is the realm of fantasy, of
dreams, illusions.
The initial distinction is of WHITE/BLACK which is the same as A/~A except
that the MANY contains both negation as well as all harmonics. More
reflection is when we then look at HARMONICS from which emerges all else,
all of the 'chords' of colour as well as of music as well as of thought.
Harmonics analysis favours the use of wave analysis and probabilities, of
DYNAMIC processes; QUALITY is reflected in probabilities.
The INITIAL distinction of a 1:many manifests the root DICHOTOMY we use in
the form of BIFURCATIONS where the 1 is constant and the many is variable.
In the realm of the variable, 2 comes before 3, 3 before 4 etc BUT the
development of the movement from 2-3-4 contains within it the process of
bifurcations something DEES has a problem with, as he has with dynamic
processes.
This process favours exponential developments.
In the analysis of such triad biased individuals as Charles Pierce we find
that, working in a context of late 19th century thought, there is a lack in
precision, in consideration of DYNAMIC processes such that relationships etc
are not differentiated properly. Dees shows his bias when he emphasises a
'whole and parts' perspective which is TOTALLY out of touch with analysis in
that EMERGENCE comes from the space INBETWEEN objects, a whole new realm of
study has emerged since the mid 19th century and it is time that we got more
involved with this work, which includes all of the oscillations etc I
referred to in my previous emails.
Dees seems to be mentally 'stuck' in the 19th century whilst trying to
function in 20th-21st ...
Chris.
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