DISTINCTION (Primary) 2)3)
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The most elemental distinction that can be made. D. HERBST writes: "When a distinction is made, a boundary comes into being together with the inside and the outside of a form. What is generated in this way is a triadeic co-genetic unit consisting of the inside, the outside and the distinction made, which is represented by the boundary. At this stage, we have nothing more than a form in an empty space"(1993, p. 29)
Examples are a line (or a circle) in an empty two-dimensional surface, or plane.
Herbst adds: "In its most general form, what has become generated…is a unit consisting of not less than three elements "(Ibid)
This is in fact the basic triadic unit, related in different ways to Ch.S. PEIRCE's "thirdness" and to SPENCER-BROWN's laws of form.
Any distinction is also an operator in the meaning developed by R. VALLEE (1995)
→ Dyad; Network; Topology; Triad; Triadic relation; Triadicity
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