List, In MS7, Peirce says: "But, fifthly, even if there were no pope, still, like all other signs sufficiently complete, there is a single definite object to which it must refer; namely, to the ‘Truth,’ or the Absolute, or the entire Universe of real being. Sixthly, a sign may refer, in addition, and specially, to any number of parts of that universe."
In another passage (which I'm having trouble locating tonight), he claims that the function of the conception of reality in our experience is entirely analogous to the function of the absolute in a projective geometry. What do you make of the analogy? --Jeff
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