One might say this is something of an over-generalization when one realizes that there were monumental figures like Charles Sanders Peirce -- but then one recal

One might say this is something of an over-generalization when one realizes that there were monumental figures like Charles Sanders Peirce -- but then one recalls he has ironically only but recently come in vogue in philosophy-the-field, such that many of the old heads schooled in even today's philosophy can barely fathom his work. Philosophy-the-field is indeed a dead end. One can merely step back and be awed with the romantic ideal of architectonics as dimly intimated by most today.