Triples, Triads or Trinities
Every layered, taxonomic or network model of anything.
1D – The identity of every thing being distinct from not-this-thing and the distinction made.
2D – Levels or layers (in 2D orthogonal to any axis in n-dimensions, think onion-skins) come in threes. This layer, the next layer and the interface between the two is the most obvious. But each layer comes in threes – the layer and it’s two interfaces to adjacent layers (network node-edge equivalence). But once you unpick each distinction, it has relationships between the two (or more) things it is distinguishing, etc. Fractally, each component, each identity is a triple.
The semantic web is made of triples, OWL etc.
Most recent collection here Penrose-Foucault-Pirsig.
Relationalism. First mentioned in connection with “relationalism” being a better take than “relativism”. Panrelationalism in fact – everything is relational. Sure everything is in context relative to everything else, but that’s not some subjective groundless valuation, it’s simply reality, at a pretty deep level – fundamental physical ontology – information is any significant difference – thing / distinction / not-thing. Meaning.
(Wow – More Pirsig and Mary Parker-Follett in there. Hat-tips to Matt and Rebecca too. Connections in everything.)