What Peirce does not allow is a definition of faith that goes beyond concretized imagination, the insight that leads to perception by the mind. Proof of faith resides in visible signs. There can be no hidden or invisible signs secreted in what the Hebrew exegetical method would call the sod. For Peirce the pilgrim’s search for God is not immersion but inquiry, not truth but still a form of knowledge. Though freed from analytics and linearity, abduction still remains without “proof,” a fallible knowledge and a faulty reason. The inquiring mind is still in control and self-authenticating. Peirce
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