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Experiences with applications of concept lattices and the pragmatic philosophy founded by Ch. S. Peirce have suggested a triadic approach to formal concept analysis. It starts with the notion of atriadic context combiningobjects, attributes, andconditions under which objects may have certain attributes.The Basic Theorem of triadic concept analysis clarifies the class of structures which are formed by thetriadic concepts of triadic contexts: These structures are exactly thecomplete trilattices up to isomorphism.
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Wille, R. The Basic Theorem of triadic concept analysis. Order 12, 149–158 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01108624
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