l we have some reasonably clear account ...
&gt;
&gt;Excuse the "but in", again, but in this sentence,
&gt;I just wonder, do you even hear yourself saying:
&gt;"until 'we' have some reasonably clear account ..."
&gt;(emphasis mine)?

Yes, of course. So what? One can always get lost in these infinite 
recursions of meta-discussion, but here I think the appropriate 
person to cite is not Peirce but Charles Dodgson. The 'we' I was 
referring to was the people who might be trying to create an ontology 
or theor