d in major areas of business,
engineering, and agriculture.

It seems to me that those *terms* are what Peirce means when he says:

| Consider, what a word or symbol is;  it is a sort of representation.

In the first quote, then, Peirce is giving us a framework for the
*definition* of those
terms.  It must be in relation to the interpreter (the Frenchmen, and all
their analogs
in the world) and the interpretants (the mental equivalent of the term for
the specific
interpreter).

From a methodological point o