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Deductive vs. ampliative. Repletive vs. attenuative. Induction & abduction, well defined thereby.
Plausibility, likelihood, novelty, nontriviality, versus optima, probabilities, information, givens.
Logical quantity & research scopes - universal, general, special, particular, individual, singular.
Telos, entelechy, Aristotle's Four Causes, pleasure, & happiness
Tetrachotomies of future-oriented virtues and vices.
Fantastic Four.
The Four Causes, their principles, special relativity, Thomistic beauty.
A periodic table of aspects of humanity that lend themselves to compartmentalization.
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Compare to Aristotle, Aquinas, & Peirce.
Semiotic triad versus tetrad.
What of these other fours?
Why tetrastic?
Logical quantities, categories of research, and categories.
Semiotics: collaterally based recognition, the proxy, and counting-as.
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Methods of active learning by basic faculties
Contrarian, partisan, insularist, conformist
I disbelieve in numerology and it bores me. No paranormalism, no synchronicity claims, etc., here.
The label “the Tetrast” is partly in fun at my inclination to make philosophy on the seemingly threadbare theme of a 4-fold pattern. I developed most of my 4-folds independently of Peirce's 3-folds, many of them before I came to read Peirce. The semiotic tetrad and related sign classes are the exceptions.
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• The Tetrast3 - Bits
• What of these other fours?
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• Peirce Dict.
• The Peirce Blog
• Peirce Matters
• Century Dict.
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• Math Subjects Classification
• Wolfram MathWorld
• Paul Burgess
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Did much editing on:
• Charles Sanders Peirce
• CSP bibliography
• CSP's categories,
• CSP's semiotic elements & classes of signs
• CSP's classification of the sciences
• Scientific method: Pragmatic model
• Charles Santiago Sanders Peirce
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Philosophy blog: small delights and nice insights with fourfolds - tetrachotomies & tetrads. Some, not all. Philosopher C. S. Peirce for his extensive trichotomies & triads.
Posts on which I've worked lately at Tetrast2:
I disbelieve in numerology and it bores me. No paranormalism, no synchronicity claims, etc., here.
The label “the Tetrast” is partly in fun at my inclination to make philosophy on the seemingly threadbare theme of a 4-fold pattern. I developed most of my 4-folds independently of Peirce's 3-folds, many of them before I came to read Peirce. The semiotic tetrad and related sign classes are the exceptions.
Adjunct blogs:
• The Tetrast2 - Speculation Lounge
• The Tetrast3 - Bits
• What of these other fours?
About Me
- Name: The Tetrast
- Location: Woodside, New York, United States
I’m Ben UdeIΙ. Quadruplicity drinks procrastination, quoth Bertrand Russell making sense, and the best proof am I. Lifelong layabout layman. EMAIL: baudell@ΑntіѕраΜgmail.com . Delete the “ΑntіѕраΜ” from my email address; it’s there in order to avoid spam. Also, I post at peirce-l and currently am co-manager there and co-manager & webmaster at Arisbe: The Peirce Gateway. I'm not Tetrast in Greece or on Twitter or art websites.
Links:
• Arisbe: The Peirce Gateway
• Peirce Dict.
• The Peirce Blog
• Peirce Matters
• Century Dict.
• Perseus-Tufts
• Math Atlas
• Math Subjects Classification
• Wolfram MathWorld
• Paul Burgess
Wikipedia hobby:
Did much editing on:
• Charles Sanders Peirce
• CSP bibliography
• CSP's categories,
• CSP's semiotic elements & classes of signs
• CSP's classification of the sciences
• Scientific method: Pragmatic model
• Charles Santiago Sanders Peirce
Sketcher of various interrelated fourfolds.
Don’t miss the grove for the tree(s).
Tetrachotomies of future-oriented virtues and vices.
August 7, 2005.
The clear logical structure displayed below complicates things somewhat for Aristotle’s idea of virtue as being a kind of mean or middle, but not hopelessly so!Opportunity ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
RiskSafeness ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
FutilityHope ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
FearConfidence ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
DespairFor everything
Boldness ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
CautionConfident behavior ~ ~ ~
Resignationthere is a season
Courage ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
PrudenceDue confident behavior ~
‘Realism’& an out-of-season
Rashness ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
CowardiceComplacency ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Defeatism“Hope is the cruel thing with feathers” —? (Not Dickinson)
“Never say die” —C.S. Peirce
“Hopping he tried to catch a cloud drop, on the fly, but missed. Thirstily he pecked one of the spitted ones, from a tulip leaf. Thank you little drop.
“What a commotion he must have caused in that universe! He looked around at the many others before he chose. Some were larger than our own, he guessed, others not, but all quite large enough. .... Was there, in that one, say, a world as beautiful as ours? Had been. Well, yes, perhaps, to them. On the other hand, quite possibly we had been given the most beautiful one. He always thought to point this out to the children when they grew up. Had.
“....
“He took one last peck of seed, while he could see. Soon he would be pecking star seeds
—Douglas Woolf, HAD: a tale
One good world deserves another. - posted by The Tetrast @ 11:17 PM 0 comments
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Plausibility, likelihood, novelty, nontriviality, versus optima, probabilities, information, givens ||
Logical quantity & research scopes
- universal, general, special, particular, individual, singular. ||
Telos, entelechy, Aristotle's Four Causes, pleasure, & happiness ||
Compare to Aristotle, Aquinas, & Peirce. ||
Semiotic triad versus tetrad. ||
Tetrachotomies of future-oriented virtues and vices. ||
What of these other fours? ||
Fantastic Four. ||
Why tetrastic? ||
The Four Causes, their principles, special relativity, Thomistic beauty. ||
Logical quantities, categories of research, and categories. ||
Semiotics: collaterally based recognition, the proxy, and counting‑as. ||
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