ABSTRACT
Peirce started to develop alternative arguments for his categories, dropping the idea of reducing the manifold of sense to unity and focusing instead on the logic of relations and phenomenology. By the turn of the century, he was keeping his distance well away from Kant. While Peirce contrasted his view of indispensable assumptions with Kant's, in the background is also his tussle with William James, at times suggested that with respect to a certain class of beliefs that are underdetermined by the evidence. Peirce set pragmatism against the school. The American Pragmatists that the pragmatism which retains a strong Kantian residue, found in Peirce, Lewis, and Sellars, is the most promising of all the varieties of pragmatism. While pragmatism is all about seeing how belief works in action, Peirce was worried about how to cash out that general idea, and put considerable effort into the project.
