Jeff and Jon, To clarify these issues, search CP for every occurrence of "A gives B". Peirce states the issues in different ways, but the following example illustrates the general principle:
A triad may be explicated into a triadic tetrad. Thus, A gives B to C becomes A makes the covenant D with C and the covenant D gives B to C. (CP 1.474)
By this analysis, Peirce used hypostatic abstraction to convert 'gives' into a covenant D that relates A, B, and C. But that tetrad is "degenerate" in the sense that it is derived from a triad. Earlier in paragraph 1.474, he writes
every dyad by a particularization evolves a dyadic triad. Thus, A murders B is a generalization of A shoots that bullet, and the bullet fatally wounds B.
By the same analysis, 'surrender' and 'acquisition' would be dyadic triads in
d. μ is the surrender by A of B e. m is the surrender by C of D g. ν is the acquisition by A of D h. η is the acquisition by C of B
John
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