on as the composition of
two 2-adic relations.  Peirce just takes this much as given
from the start, as it is already clear in his first papers.

At level three, which a player reaches in an orderly way
only by conceding the issue of irreducibility on the first
two scores, and this is where, as I currently understand it,
the whole business about &quot;genuineness&quot; comes into play, one is
given a single 3-adic relation, say, the one that corresponds to
logical conjunction, in terms of truth values 'and'