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Gerry Myerson
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Why are so few operations with arity bigger than 2?

In usual algebraic structures, like groups, rings, monoids, etc, or in algebras coming from logics like Boolean algebras, Heyting algebras and the like the operations are usually of arity 0 (constants), 1 or 2. My question is two-fold:

  1. Provide examples of algebras arising naturally in some field (I'm mainly interested in algebras coming from logics, but I'm open to any field) with operations of arity 3 or bigger.

  2. Is there any reason (more or less profound) for being so few algebras with operations of arity bigger than 2?

Thank you in advance.