Context: Charles Peirce (1839–1914) was highly influential in laying the groundwork for today's empirical scientific method.[citation needed] Although Peirce severely criticized many elements of Descartes' peculiar brand of rationalism, he did not reject rationalism outright. Indeed, he concurred with the main ideas of rationalism, most importantly the idea that rational concepts can be meaningful and the idea that rational concepts necessarily go beyond the data given by empirical observation. In later years he even emphasized the concept-driven side of the then ongoing debate between strict empiricism and strict rationalism, in part to counterbalance the excesses to which some of his cohorts had taken pragmatism under the "data-driven" strict-empiricist view.

Question: When was Peirce born?
Answer: 1839

Question: When did Peirce die?
Answer: 1914

Question: What view did Peirce think had been driven to excess?
Answer: the "data-driven" strict-empiricist view

Question: Who formed the basis for modern scientific method?
Answer: Charles Peirce

Question: Whose rationalism did Peirce criticize?
Answer: Descartes

Question: When did Pierce begin to take excesses with data-driven empiricism?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: Why did Pierce reject rationalism?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: Which philosopher did Pierce agree with the most?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: When was the strict-empiricist view started?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: Why did Pierce prefer the data-driven empiricist view?
Answer: Unanswerable