 quite a bit of time worrying over the
whole tangled tale of &quot;existential import&quot;, or the lack thereof,
in the tortoise's transit from classical to modern logic, which
caused me to work through the &quot;Description of a Notation&quot; (1870)
and its sequels with particular care.  The upshot of the story
is that I can distinctly remember how I first interpreted these
problematic passages.  It did not seem that Peirce was talking
about anything so hot off the presses, since what he mentioned
was on