Abstract

We argue that until the end of the 1860s, Peirce’s unorthodox reading of Kant was determined by a Leibnizian background. Though a true supporter of transcendental philosophy, Peirce blurred the a priori / a posteriori and analytic / synthetic distinctions and rejected the noumenon in order to realize a synthesis of rationalist dogmatism with Kantian philosophy, because transcendental limitations did not fit his metaphysical project.

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