Peircean realism

Peircean Realism is a philosophical idea that suggests that reality is not made up of individual things, but instead is made up of patterns of relationships between these things. Things themselves don't really exist, but they are part of larger patterns that are real. To put it simply, things exist because of the relationships they have with other things. Picture a jigsaw puzzle - the pieces by themselves don't have any meaning, but when they are connected and form the whole picture, it all makes sense. That's kind of like Peircean Realism - the pieces of the puzzle represent individual things, and the picture they form is the pattern of relationships.