The traditional philosophical reasoning leads us to believe that the phenomenological investigations made by
Peirce, well represented by phaneroscopy, were crucial for the development of semiotics, especially with the advent of the doctrine of the categories.
Leslie
Peirce is well-known for the ground-breaking work she has done on the institution of the Ottoman harem and on gender, identity, and law in the provincial capitals of the Ottoman Empire.
But pragmatism was nothing like an official ideology to which all the participants subscribed; rather, it was a distinctive way of tackling philosophical questions, a method that emerged from the discussions at meetings of the group, especially the discussions between
Peirce and James.