In “Remarks on Nishida and Nishitani,” Rorty examines Kyoto School philosophers Nishida Kitaro and Nishitani Keiji in relation to the pragmatist tradition. Characterizing their epistemological orientations as the “Argument from Holism to Monism,” Rorty likens their perspectives to the idealism of T. H. Green, F. H. Bradley, and Josiah Royce. He then contrasts those perspectives with the “Argument from Holism to Pragmatism” advanced by William James and John Dewey. He concludes by embracing those aspects of Nishida’s and Nishitani’s positions that are consistent with pragmatism’s “democratic humanism,” but rejecting their traces of transcendence, all while offering one of the more concise accounts of his classical and neopragmatist commitments.