tive, analogous to projective
&gt;or descriptive geometry, from falling into this pit
&gt;is the appreciation of Cartesian Rationalism, which
&gt;is one of the aesthetic attitudes that Peirce shared
&gt;with Descartes -- and so it must be the one true view! --
&gt;whose consequences in this context are that no completed
&gt;sample of signs, in any significant equivalence relation
&gt;among signs alone, is going to exhaust the senses of the
&gt;object to which all of these signs point.  This, indeed,
&gt;if 