List,
Peirce-L subscriber, Atila Bayat, meant to send this post to the entire
forum, but posted it to me. He's asked me to resend it for him. See
directly below. GR
Gary, I wanted to answer an earlier thread, of yours but lost the cue.
Much or all of our public media has our intellectuals in a
List:
As I noted yesterday, the identification of exactly three kinds of genuine
conic sections goes back at least as far as Euclid, so it is not something
that Peirce invented or derived from his universal categories.
Nevertheless, upon further reflection, there is a sense in which they can
be