AM de Lange writes:
> But when the whole is made up of three or even more parts, our languages
> have not yet caught up with these possibilities. For example, we do not
> yet speak of a "complementary trials" or a "complementary triality". In
> fact, we use the word "trial" for something else, namely examination.
Don't sell our languages too short. My little online Webster's includes
dyad, triad, tetrad, pentad, hexad, heptad, and octad. (I couldn't find
nonad or decad, and gave up there, although it's pretty clear what a
hexadecad would be).
In his book "The Journey of the Software Professional", Luke Hohmann
builds a conceptual framework based on the complementary triad of
structure-process-outcome, which he uses to motivate a lot of his points
and advice. (The book might be worth reading for anyone in a
project-oriented organization -- he incorporates a lot of organizational
and psychological material, although he doesn't make any references to
Senge or learning organizations.)
--Don Dwiggins SEI Information Technology d.l.dwiggins@computer.org The very first lesson that we have a right to demand that logic shall teach us is how to make our ideas clear. -- C.S. Peirce
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