Pierce founded the Metaphysics Club at Harvard. Members included Emerson, Thoreau, Longfellow, and Oliver Wendell Holmes.
- Pragmatism is problem-solving. It rejects and embraces materialism.
- Reality is pluralistic.
- Whatever works, choose.
- Things are constantly evolving.
- Reality happens over a period of time; it is a process.
- Consequential
- With a vision of the future, we can make it happen
- Things against it: muddled thinking and does not answer "what is reality?"