zero's natural meaning is special, it's the void. sometimes the 'variable' stands in as having this meaning, sometimes the variable is zero.
one is the easiest simplest to grasp. its meaning is "I", ego.
two is duality in the broadest imaginable sense. wars are being fought right now over the precise meaning of 3
The One Produced Two;
The Two Produced Three
And The Three Produced All Things.
(Which I think are nothing but nonsense from a madman =)
No offense intended, but to the extent his work feels mad to you, it might be a “you problem.” That said, he never did reduce firstness, secondness, and thirdness to unity to his own satisfaction either. His work is truly tantalizing.
Oh and abduction has had some conceptual influence too.
Sad that the Arisbe fansite got deleted.
I just have never found these three "universal" categories useful for anything whatsoever except for a semiotics class in university where he was one of the study subjects.
Umberto Eco on the other hand... every single thing he wrote was immediately interesting and useful.
Or funny. His Lolita's parody, Granita, was Pratchett and Adams levels of funny. He was awesome.
the three produced the equation, which pretended that all things were (could be) equalized into equivalence. they called this algebra and parised some monotheistic god; they called this magic and GOTO one.
unless youre a dirty filioquist
Compare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_with_one_element