Robert Lane is Professor of Philosophy at the University of West Georgia. He is editor of Peirce submissions for the Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society and has published numerous essays on Peirce.

'With impressive clarity and careful attention to the manuscripts, Robert Lane shows us how Peirce could consistently endorse both realism and idealism throughout his life. This book elucidates key conceptions and important distinctions at the heart of Peirce's metaphysics. It is essential reading for anyone trying to reconcile the comprehensibility of reality, on the one hand, with its mind-independence, on the other.' Richard Kenneth Atkins, Boston College

• Introduction: basic realism; 1. The dual-aspect account of truth; 2. The pragmatic clarification of the idea of reality; 3. Basic idealism and objective idealism; 4. The idealistic theory of reality: idealism in the cognition series; 5. Generals: early scholastic realism; 6. Generals and vagues: late scholastic realism; 7. 'A lacuna in the completeness of reality': deficit indeterminacy.

Robert Lane is Professor of Philosophy at the University of West Georgia. He is editor of Peirce submissions for the Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society and has published numerous essays on Peirce.

'With impressive clarity and careful attention to the manuscripts, Robert Lane shows us how Peirce could consistently endorse both realism and idealism throughout his life. This book elucidates key conceptions and important distinctions at the heart of Peirce's metaphysics. It is essential reading for anyone trying to reconcile the comprehensibility of reality, on the one hand, with its mind-independence, on the other.' Richard Kenneth Atkins, Boston College

• Introduction: basic realism; 1. The dual-aspect account of truth; 2. The pragmatic clarification of the idea of reality; 3. Basic idealism and objective idealism; 4. The idealistic theory of reality: idealism in the cognition series; 5. Generals: early scholastic realism; 6. Generals and vagues: late scholastic realism; 7. 'A lacuna in the completeness of reality': deficit indeterminacy.

Robert Lane is Professor of Philosophy at the University of West Georgia. He is editor of Peirce submissions for the Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society and has published numerous essays on Peirce.

'With impressive clarity and careful attention to the manuscripts, Robert Lane shows us how Peirce could consistently endorse both realism and idealism throughout his life. This book elucidates key conceptions and important distinctions at the heart of Peirce's metaphysics. It is essential reading for anyone trying to reconcile the comprehensibility of reality, on the one hand, with its mind-independence, on the other.' Richard Kenneth Atkins, Boston College

• Introduction: basic realism; 1. The dual-aspect account of truth; 2. The pragmatic clarification of the idea of reality; 3. Basic idealism and objective idealism; 4. The idealistic theory of reality: idealism in the cognition series; 5. Generals: early scholastic realism; 6. Generals and vagues: late scholastic realism; 7. 'A lacuna in the completeness of reality': deficit indeterminacy.