Triadomany

Keyword: Triadomany


Dictionary Entry | Posted 09/03/2013
Quote from "Letters to Lady Welby"

… I was long ago (1867) led, after only three or four years’ study, to throw all ideas into the three classes of Firstness, of Secondness, and of Thirdness. This sort of notion is as distasteful...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 09/03/2013
Quote from "The Author's Response to the anticipated Suspicion that he attaches a superstitious or fanciful importance to the number three, and forces Divisions to a Procrustean Bed of Trichotomy"

I fully admit that there is a not uncommon craze for trichotomies. I do not know but the psychiatrists have provided a name for it. If not, they should. “Trichimania...