Dear Jerry,
I agree my attempt to explained handedness was faulty. Here is the Peirce reference to the issue. Glad the conference was such a success. Best wishes, Jim Piat
"Take any fact in physics of the triadic kind, by which I mean a fact which can only be defined by simultaneous reference to three things, and you will find there is ample evidence that it never was produced by the action of forces on mere dyadic conditions. Thus, your right hand is that hand which is toward the east when you face the north with your head toward the zenith. Three things, east, west and up, are required to define the difference between right and left. Consequently chemists find that those substances wich rotate the plane of polarization to the right or left can only be produced from such [similar] active substances" Quoted from The Principles of Phenomenology -- page 92 of Buchler's _The Philosophical Writings of Peirce_.
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