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or distinctions between two kinds
prevail; and that might perhaps
have been expected. But it is rather surprising
that where the element of Thirdness
is predominant, trichotomies, or
the divisions into three kinds prevail.
In saying this, I am speaking of divisions of form not mere divisions
according to matter. The dichotomies of secondness
all have a general likeness, the
one species being more factual or compulsive external,
the other more internal.
The trichotomies of thirdness also have a
general likeness, one species being decidedly
intellectual and having trichotomic subdivisions,
another more factual and having dichotomic subdivisions, and
the third more qualitative,
and these have [mere?] divisions according to matter. Thus, in
what has the form of fact, Secondness is the predominant