ly &quot;nominally&quot; novel in comparison to what I had read in
his 1870's papers, but mostly that he was paying a compliment
to own long-held and previously published ideas in the guise
of his protege Mitchell.

That is about what I remember, and I can see nothing yet that
contradicts that impression, indeed, in retrospect, very much
more that confirms it, from the incidental to the substantial.

Are you referring to Quine's combinatory functors?
If so, it would help to let me know which version
you hav