Ha! I saw that, in your most recent post...you and I seem to be walking similar roads.
Out in left field, but the complexity theorist, Geoffrey West, found that a number of scaling "laws" in nature seem to come up with 4. So, perhaps there's something with the 3/4 dynamic...
Hm... so, when speaking of nature, one gets lots of fours, and when speaking of ideas, one gets lots of threes? I smell a tetractys here... that's worth following up on.
Maybe...? But it's an interesting dynamic to consider, perhaps. Something between the intelligible and the sensible.
I think of Papus and the triangle, three points that imply the space within the triangle as a fourth possibility. I think, also, of Sallustius's division of the 12 into four sets of three: the makers, the animators, the harmonizers, and the protectors. I think of 3 + 4 and 7, which, for me, at least, recall the seven spirits who stand before the throne of the Most High (Rev. 1:4).
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Date: 2025-03-14 07:50 pm (UTC)Out in left field, but the complexity theorist, Geoffrey West, found that a number of scaling "laws" in nature seem to come up with 4. So, perhaps there's something with the 3/4 dynamic...
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Date: 2025-03-15 12:25 pm (UTC)I think of Papus and the triangle, three points that imply the space within the triangle as a fourth possibility. I think, also, of Sallustius's division of the 12 into four sets of three: the makers, the animators, the harmonizers, and the protectors. I think of 3 + 4 and 7, which, for me, at least, recall the seven spirits who stand before the throne of the Most High (Rev. 1:4).
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Date: 2025-03-16 12:03 am (UTC)