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| A Sign may 'itself' have a &quot;possible&quot; Mode of Being,
| e.g., a hexagon inscribed in or circumscribed about
| a conic.  It is a Sign, in that the collinearity of
| the intersections of opposite sides shows the curve
| to be a conic, if the hexagon is inscribed;  but if
| it be circumscribed the co-punctuality of its three
| diameters (joining opposite vertices).  Its Mode of
| Being may be Actuality:  as with any barometer.  Or
| Necessitant:  as the word