Author Archives: Maryann Spikes

Logic Venn of Opposition

So far I’ve only linked to my work-in-progress Logic Venn of Opposition within at least one blog post on this blog—it has never stood in its own blog post. I’m at a point I’m ready to share it. Still a … Continue reading

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The Knowledge Triad

This is an example of every node of a harmonic triad also being triadic.

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Revisiting McTaggart’s C Series

I’ve been thinking about time and McTaggart for a few years and recently heard “C Theory” (which I’m working on) referred to as something McTaggart put forth. He only put it forth dialectically (dots you have to connect)–he didn’t actually … Continue reading

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Triadic First Principle(s)

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

The Three Fundamental/Essential Questions Two more versions of the same set of questions: “Why is there something rather than nothing?”  “Is change an illusion?” // Can people change? “What is the meaning of life?”  *** What is it? How does it … Continue reading

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Responding to Mortimer J. (Naturally)

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

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

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‑Implicating Structure … Continue reading

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

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

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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