Start with the Basics.

Peirce's perspective on our sense of reality seems to come from the reaction of ones feelings bouncing off the other. Just as a mirror will give a reflection, our feelings are based upon only the comparison of each emotion when compared to another. Happy is never known that it is 'happy' until we have felt the opposition-mad, sad. With that said, Peirce says that we don't really know the significant's of anything until it is placed in a known context that we can identify with. Just like the map example: one would never known where anything chunk of land was, unless we identify it next to previously acquired knowledge. I also noticed he likes to exemplify points in sets of three's. For instance, the three interests; 1st interest is just for the thing itself, 2nd its reactions with other things, and 3rd is the mediatory interest. When coming to the third, this marks it as a sign or representation. For me this signifies that an object first starts with a basic interest in something, such as child would be to a shiny, red ball. Then we chose to compare it to things that we have previously viewed; maybe we like this ball more than that brown ball from yesterday, it appeals to more of our senses. And lastly we start to be more inquisitive, like what are we going to do with this ball and where will it lead me, or why am I attracted to it in the first place. This is a very basic observation, but one must break it down I feel to truly understand anything beyond what is being talked about. Just like he states, "Every intellectual operation involves a triad of symbols."