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a triadic relation to a Second, called its
Object, for a Third, called its Interpretant,
this triadic relation being such that
the Representamen determines its
Interpretant to stand in the same
triadic relation to the same Object
for some Interpretant.

It follows at once that this relation cannot
consist in any actual event that ever can have occurred; for in that case
there would be another actual event connecting
the interpretant to an interpretant of its own
of which the same would be true; and thus
there would be an endless series of actual
events which could have actually occurred,
which is absurd. For the same reason