Pierce e Hume em torno do empirismo: uma dupla estratégia do método pragmatista em resposta ao ceticismo

Abstract

We argue in this aticle that the Peice´s pragmatismo, in the same time that i expanded the concept of experience, reduced the scope of empirical data in a dual strategy of metaphysical and epistemological nature. On the one hand,he worked one broader conception of reality than that sustained by British empiricists, inebriated by nominalistic doctrine. In second place, he proposed a kind of 'minimal empiricism' , in which reason and experience form the basis on which the knowledge arises, thesis better elaborated in his theory of perception. Thus, the Peircean pragmatismo responds to the David Hume´s skepticism about the justification of questions of fact and the possibility of metaphysics as science.