In college I took a philosophy class called "Mind & Self" and it was one of the most thought provoking classes I've ever taken. I don't remember too much about the class, but I do remember how confusing the texts were. Simple ideas like "happiness is the greatest good in life" took chapters to explain! The reason why it took so many pages to explain these ideas was because the philosopher's had to formulate their ideas from scratch. They would start off simple, then provide examples, and next add more to their philosophy, followed by providing counter arguments, giving more examples, and then providing more counter arguments. The rhetoric from these philosophies encouraged me to write out one of my own theories in a similar manner. Try to decode my Trends of Three philosophy.
Trends of Three – a Philosophy
(circa 2007)
When a claim is made to the word “always,” one must take into consideration of what qualifies for such a term. The main concern with the word “always” lies with people and their actions being labeled as realized behavior. Behavior may be associated with a person when a person completes three similar consecutive actions. Only then will the claim of “always” be rightfully attached to a person’s namesake of acting in a particular behavior.
Three acts are necessary for usage of the world “always” because two, one, and zero acts are not sufficient. Two acts would be a grantor of determining a pattern, as in plotting points of a graph to form an equation. Behavior requires an additional act and is less predictable to that of a pattern. One act is not sufficient in determining behavior because there is no telling what a person might do on a second instance. And zero quite obviously does not qualify for determining behavior because there is no evidence of any kind; a false claim. Therefore, the usage of “always” may only be applied to refer to a person’s behavior when Trends of Three occur.
~Anthans
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