Triangulation And Abstraction

Riddle of Plato's Cave
(Holding a mirror to reality)

A November reminiscence: Kate might recall the ancient-Greek "magic triangles" that had us law students scratchin' our heads after their introduction in Grey Dorsey's jurisprudence class. They now make sense. All of nature seems essentially triangulated; as logical/ rational reconciliation of "incommensurate magnitudes" imparted by experience, language and mathematics.

Yes, triangles do seem at work—focusing the sacred geometry of Pythagoras and successors—and then configuring everything else. Magical things—afloat though the Aesthetic Continuum—as some principle of cohesion. And integration: building out upon an abstraction ladder (extending in all directions).

Although they are difficult to visualize directly, the triangles, ladder (and mirror) are evidently real things. They are like Plato's rarified FORM for all tables: abstractly vague, as in discerning something familiar in rorschach imagery. Heightening computer technology should focus soon our understanding of such vague abstractions. Many circumlocutions in human thought may be short-circuited. The future is ours to develop.