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     secondness is independent of genuine thirdness?

I have the feeling that "independent" may be another one of
those words that we use in different ways from one another.

But I may need to repeat that I am not trying to define
the Categories of 1-ness, 2-ness, 3-ness, as I consider
them to be primeval, primitive, undefined terms, and so,
in a peculiar sense, already independent "in terms of"
each other.  Here, I am merely seeking to illustrate
how I understand their application to sign-theoretic
sub