?Through the ground-breaking article ?written by Charles Peirce in the Popular Science Monthly on 12th January, 1878, appearing in pages 286-302.
Besides, what is Peirce’s abstract definition of reality?
Reality is contrasted to fiction and to dreams. We define the real as that whose characters are independent of what anyone may think them to be. Apply our rule: “Reality… consists in the peculiar sensible effects which things partaking of it produce.