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    Comments on John Brungardt’s Post (2019) "Those Two Roads"

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    John G. Brungardt, Ph.D., posts a 15 page essay on the Thomistica website. The title is “Those Two Roads: How a Natural Philosophical Solution about Motion serves Thomistic Philosophy”. The titular road connects Athens and Thebes.
    Aristotle’s approach to motion is phantasmagorical. It moves. It is moved. The mover stands in contiguity with the moved. Action is contiguous with passion. Teaching is contiguous with learning.
    Similarly, one travels the road from Athens to Thebes. Another travels the road from Thebes to Athens. Yet, the two roads are the same.
    Brungardt follows Aquinas into the thicket. These are all relations. But, what is a relation?
    From a Peircean point of view, there are two types of “relations”: triadic and dyadic. One belongs to the category of thirdness. Triadic relations may be conveniently diagrammed as category-based nested forms. The other goes with the category of secondness. Dyadic things and events, including motions, consist of two contiguous real elements. These are very different types of “relations”.
    ‘Aristotle’s phantasms of “relations” between mover and moved’ associate to secondness.
    Consequently, these comments begin by replacing the word “relation” with “dyad” and “relata” for “dyadata”. Each dyad consists of two contiguous real elements (two dyadata). The contiguity goes into brackets, in the following notation: one real element [contiguity] other real element.
    Once this substitution is performed, Brungardt’s premodern argument opens to a postmodern configuration.

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    PublisherRazie Mah
    Release dateMay 23, 2020
    ISBN9781942824664
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      Comments on John Brungardt’s Post (2019) Those Two Roads

      By Razie Mah

      Published for Smashwords.com

      2020

      Notes on Text

      This work comments on a post by John G. Brungardt, Ph.D., in the essay section of the Sacra Doctrina Project’s website, Thomistica. The full title of the post is Those Two Roads: How a Natural Philosophical Solution to a Difficulty about Motion Serves Thomistic Theology. These comments regard the argument from the point of view of Peirce’s models, especially the category-based nested form and the dyadic nature of secondness.

      ‘Words that belong together’ are denoted by single quotes or italics.

      Prerequisites: A Primer on the Category-Based Nested Form, A Primer on Sensible and Social Construction

      Recommended: Comments on Paul Cobley’s Essay (2018) Human Understanding: The Key Triad

      Table of Contents

      Two Directions, One Road

      Actuality2 and the Category-Based Nested Form

      Opening Doors

      Action and Passion and Triadic Relations

      Translation

      Conclusion

      Two Directions, One Road

      0001 Let me start with a free-style poem.

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