The Harmonic Triads

(Moral) Truth Litmus

This three-part (Moral) Truth Litmus tells us when a particular (moral/ethical) theory or model is artificial (versus anchored in or descriptive of reality), when that theory or model fails any part of the litmus:

(L1) Part 1: Substantial (Universal Subjectivity, or Objectivity) Aspect: A (moral) theory/model must hold for all or none. (person=person)

(L2) Part 2: Existential Demonstration Aspect: A (moral) theory/model must be demonstrated in reality, not created in divergence from reality. (existential import)

(L3) Part 3: Essential Question Aspect: A (moral) theory/model must define the answer to a question (“How and why should a person(s) be or behave with the other and self (person[s])?”).

If no theory/model passes all three parts of the litmus, there is no (moral) truth.

Being discovered in/by every culture in history is good for part 1 (treat every person/other as a person/self, or the golden rule), but to pass part 2, you need a being whose essence is demonstrated (exists its essence), because no mere human (individually or culturally) does that.


Compare: the three axioms in Theatetus, Newton’s laws of motion, and the three laws of thermodynamics… and my entire thing on harmonic triads. :wink:

Meno_ (now posting as @Meno4) referred me to this deep in the unsearchable caverns of ILP & a second listening (well… review of slides—I really need to rewatch) unveils a triad:

assertion (yellow), direction (blue), and force (red)

If you consider them as distinctions within a whole, rather than as incompatibly dichotomous, he (Michael Schmitz) may agree they form a triad.

https://www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/colloque/the-forcecontent-distinction/the-content-of-force

to go with the triad immediately above:

Love is not love without demonstration.

red: ~1, 1 empty/full (never/impossible) or (always/necessary)

blue: 0 (default good/baseline) (self=other)

yellow: % anywhere in the middle (contingent) “increasing toward fullness or decreasing/nihilating away from fullness”

in order to know where you’re at, you need to know the end that has always been

complete before it started

heh

Blue CHOICE: Independent variable: The one the experimenter changes.

Yellow MALLEABLE CHARACTER: Dependent variable: What changes in response to the independent variable.

Red STAYS: Controlled variables: Factors that are kept constant to ensure accurate results.

The definitions are generic… googled.

If any of this is true, it isn’t mine. If any of this is false, it’s definitely MagsJ’s fault.




descriptive/is=yellow

deontic/ought=blue

“believed”/value=red

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