who awakened in him an interest in the American pragmatist and logician Charles Sanders Peirce. During this period he also met Victoria Brodkin (d. 1953), whom he would later marry on October 27, 1928. They had two children: Judith, who was born in 1935, and Jonathan, who was born in 1939.

Upon receiving his B.A. from the City College of New York, Weiss immediately enrolled at Harvard, where he studied philosophy