# Trichotomy (philosophy) | | A trichotomy is a three-way classificatory division. Some philosophers pursued trichotomies. | |-|-| | | wikipedia:: [Trichotomy (philosophy)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichotomy_(philosophy)) | - [[Immanuel Kant|Kant]] - [[Sigmund Freud]] - [[Soren Kierkegaard]] - [[Hannah Arendt]]'s [[Vita activa]] - labor, work, and action - [[Plato]] - [[Aristotle]] - [[Alan Watts]] 3 world views - [[Modes of persuasion] - [[Dialectic]] - [[Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis]] - [[Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel]] [[Consilience in thought models, theoretical frameworks, paradigms, and conceptual distinctions, principles, strategies, mapping, categories, classification, and abstraction]]