Author Archives: Maryann Spikes

Triadic First Principle(s)

Posted on May 14, 2026 by Maryann Spikes

A first principle is a premise-less syllogism valid if and only if it is impossible for its conclusion to be false. For example: All A is A (1, 2). There is no such thing as only one first principle, because … Continue reading →

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The Three Questions

Posted on April 23, 2026 by Maryann Spikes

The Three Fundamental/Essential Questions Would it alarm you that the answer is triadic? whispers: answer precedes question whispers back: and when the student is ready, the answer emerges

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Responding to Mortimer J. (Naturally)

Posted on April 3, 2026 by Maryann Spikes

If you need a “yellow △ blue △ red” decoder for my comments bracketed into Adler’s below, please use “is/fact △ ought △ value” or “being △ action △ quality” or “formal/material △ final/ought △ formal/final” (going around & around … Continue reading →

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Seeing Beauty in Science, Calling it Good

Posted on March 20, 2026 by Maryann Spikes

https://copilot.microsoft.com/shares/8Yi1kfd6LkCWY1skXDHbT MORE. (indexed below the following index) Index of Topics Covered in First Link Copilot: Here’s a clean, compact index of the scientific domains we’ve covered so far, each interpreted through the Red–Blue–Yellow triadic metaphysical logic. I’ll keep it brief, … Continue reading →

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UNITY‑IN‑DISTINCTION AS A METAPHYSICAL LOGIC

Posted on March 20, 2026 by Maryann Spikes

Articulated with the immeasurably helpful assistance of Copilot (read discussion). See Aquinas as an example (including AQUINAS VS. WILLIAM LANE CRAIG ON DIVINE SIMPLICITY). UNITY‑IN‑DISTINCTION AS A METAPHYSICAL LOGIC Being △ Action △ Quality as a Unified, Irreducible, Mutually‑Requiring Structure … Continue reading →

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Solve for x (good) & y (great/beautiful)

Posted on November 26, 2025 by Maryann Spikes

Following up on a segment of my last post, “It’s a greater ‘neutral value’ view that considers competing goods as neutral values before they are in the context of a decisive action,” from Graded Absolutism Revisited: Ordered Neutral Values, I … Continue reading →

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Graded Absolutism Revisited: Ordered Neutral Values

Posted on November 16, 2025 by Maryann Spikes

Generations of people who survived childhood are evidence of a mother’s nurturing and a father’s protection—or some other caregivers who stood in their places. At the animal level it involves following a program of parental empathy. At the intentional level … Continue reading →

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Rules: Descriptive, Prescriptive, and Purposive

Posted on October 22, 2025 by Maryann Spikes

Sparked by a “separation of church and state” discussion with my youngest son, David, and his beloved, Holly. Separation of Church/Religion and State/Science Science is descriptive – it cannot a) prescribe anything, or b) have a purpose behind it. It’s … Continue reading →

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Two quotes compressed & distilled into a concentrated compact of… curiosity… :D

Posted on October 1, 2025 by Maryann Spikes

Divine impassibility is not a lack of passion, but an eternally unshakeable, rational passion. —Anonymous (okay, it was me) A counter-obligatory imperative is no imperative at all. — Augustine of Hippo (my translation, using deontic logic terms)

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Harmonic Triads Reference, Current Index

Posted on October 1, 2025 by Maryann Spikes

This index is not exhaustive, but current: The first fallacy: Ought-Value or Action-Quality Conflation On the impossibility of knowing a true tenseless fact without omnitemporality (read all the comments) Elaborating on C Theory Logic Venn (of Opposition/Reconciliation) C Theory of Time & the … Continue reading →

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