Being and Appearing on Peirce's Philosophy. The Phenomenology Statute

Abstract

C. S. Peirce's Phenomenology or Phaneroscopy is a science of what appears to human experience and, according to the author, is the very first science of Philosophy. In this science are founded three categories that not only classify appearances but also, from an ontological point of view, will be linked to the being of reality. Peirce considers Phenomenology one of five sciences that are independent from Logic, being merely conjectural in its claims. This paper will try to show that Phenomenology is a fundamental science that announces in itself the inscription of being as the totality of appearance, configuring once more the Pragmatism method in conceiving the meaning of theories.