[MD] The Edge 2006 Annual Question

[Scott Roberts]

SA,

"The car hit a tree" is a dyadic relation. "John gave Mary a book" is a 
triadic relation. Giving requires three participants.  Meaning is also a 
triadic relation: something means something else to someone. There's nothing 
deeper than this going on. What I claim, though, is that one cannot 
decompose a triadic relation into dyadic ones. The significance of this is 
that we have been indoctrinated into thinking that meaning (language, for 
example) has emerged out of a universe consisting solely  of dyadic 
relations, such as those that are studied by science (action/reaction). So 
if it is the case that out of dyads one cannot get triads, then either the 
dyads are appearances, not reality, or one must claim dualism (that in 
addition to dyadic reality there is triadic reality).

- Scott

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Heather Perella" <spiritualadirondack at yahoo.com>
To: <moq_discuss at moqtalk.org>
Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 11:41 AM
Subject: Re: [MD] The Edge 2006 Annual Question


Scott,

     I know you explained earlier what triadic means,
but please explain again, because as I noticed David
tried to interject a meaning into whatever we are
trying to gain meaning of, which I am still not seeing
what we are trying to understand in this subject
heading, and you (Scott) said, "Trouble with this (as
Peirce argues)  is that you can't make a triadic
relation out of dyadic ones. So what you are espousing
here is dualism:  first there were interacting
patterns, then (somehow) language was added."

  Is this third relation (in the triadic) an effort to
pull the discussion out of what I would call a messy
dualistic, back and forth, perspective of the world?

Thanks
SA

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