Triadic Philosophy has at present no knowledge enabling it to assume a boundary to life itself or in fact to the life of any entity to whom life might be attributed such as ourselves or other beings that have mass and movement. It does however recognize the likelihood that we (living creatures) reach a point at which our bodies cannot sustain themselves and are naturally subject to decay and other signs of nonexistence. I wonder if this fact does not influence Peirce in his remarks which suppose the folly of dwelling too much on our individuality. The difficulty in assuming a sort of add on to life as we know it is that it is complete supposition. One might suppose a soul or even the capacity of the imagination to exert influence through the creation of a character. Hamlet is clearly influential, for example. Triadic Philosophy assumes because thought of immortality or life after death is still about that it falls under supposition and that anything that can be supposed is real precisely because it is supposed. We will doubtless suppose such things until they can graduate to the level of hypotheses capable of being deemed true or not. More of reality is doubtless mystery than not, though we have no way of knowing the ratio.
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