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With the clarity afforded by a reflective interval, my third thought, the relatively ultimate, more perfect interpretant of the intervening struggle toward that final, hopefully neither dying nor raging light, begins to look ever more like the fitting icon of my first impression.

With the clarity afforded by a reflective interval, my third thought, the relatively ultimate, more perfect interpretant of the intervening struggle toward that final, hopefully neither dying nor raging light, begins to look ever more like the fitting icon of my first impression.

I was trying to understand the things that Peirce said and wrote about the conventional, disjunctive, indexical, inductive complex of notions in the period 1865–1867.  And I was focused for the moment on this bit:

I was trying to understand the things that Peirce said and wrote about the conventional, disjunctive, indexical, inductive complex of notions in the period 1865–1867.  And I was focused for the moment on this bit:

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I've gotten as far as sketching this picture of the possible readings:

I've gotten as far as sketching this picture of the possible readings:

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In order of increasing ''objectivity'', here are three alternatives:

In order of increasing ''objectivity'', here are three alternatives: