A triad considers three things, as in Icon, Index, Symbol. Any three things. Reality, Ethics, Aesthetics.
John Sowa wrote: A monad P says "This chunk of experience is a P." A dyad R says "This chunk is related to that chunk by R." A triad M says "The mediator M relates this chunk to that chunk." I would suggest: A monad is stands on its own, a subject, idea, sign which we a name Reality. All is real. A dyad is an Index of ethical reflections on Reality we name Ethics. (Thinking that designates opposites as the whole of any matter is binary or dyadic or dualistic.) A triad considers Reality and Ethics in terms of their relation to truth and beauty fused -- Aesthetics. The Pragmaticist Maxim is a formula for the development of measurable actions and expressions that are the result of this triadic thought process. "Consider what effects, that might conceivably have practical bearings, we conceive the object of our conception to have. Then, our conception of these effects is the whole of our conception of the object." -- Peirce Practical bearings refers to everyday life. Philosophy should be a universally accessible facilitator of triadic thinking. amazon.com/author/stephenrose
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