I'm wondering whether two pairs of twins run through the structure of Objectivism (rather than the previously considered trichotomies).
The tetrad idea derives from John Galt’s speech:
To exist is to be something, as distinguished from the nothing of non-existence, it is to be an entity of a specific nature made of specific attributes. Centuries ago, the man who was—no matter what his errors—the greatest of your philosophers, has stated the formula defining the concept of existence and the rule of all knowledge: A is A. A thing is itself. You have never grasped the meaning of his statement. I am here to complete it: Existence is Identity, Consciousness is Identification.
Adapting ‘pairs of twins’ into a 3D model, within a golden epistemological spiral, occasions a set of four sphere of decreasing golden ratio, each at right-angles, pairs facing each other across the origin.
Front view
Top view
But does this quaternary continue down through successive spiral rotations? Watch this space…
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