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show no signs of belonging presumably do not belong to this series of ideas. Nor did
an investigation of them occupying me for two years
reveal any analysis of them into these as their constituents.
I shall say nothing further about them, except incidentally.

As to the three Universal Categories, as I call them,
perhaps with no very good reason for thinking that they
are more universal than the others, we first notice that
Secondness and Thirdness are conceptions of complexity.
That is not, however, to say that they are complex
conceptions. When I we think of Secondness, we naturally
think of two reacting objects, a first and a second.
And along with these, as subjects, there is their Reaction.
But these are not constituents out of which the
Secondness is built up. The truth is just reverse,

show no signs of belonging presumably do not belong to this series of ideas. Nor did
an investigation of them occupying me for two years
reveal any analysis of them into these as their constituents.
I shall say nothing further about them, except incidentally.