The spareness of Buchler's system, his systematic strategy and style of expression might disorient the reader who is unfamiliar
with systematic philosophy.
And there can be no efficacy in
a systematic philosophy that loses sight of the vocation of the human knower to the whole of reality.
Hartshorne also makes clear the importance of
systematic philosophy.
We want to emphasize
that systematic philosophy constructs categories to articulate its subject matter.
Buchler's
systematic philosophy is not so much polemically provocative as it is a shock.
Systematic philosophy is not just a set of assertions or claims, but is exhibitive as well as assertive.
Systematic philosophy is defined not so much by the scope of its subject matter or by any one kind of system, as by the deliberate achievement of a conceptual array within which themes and categories recur and facilitate theoretical development and ramification.
In that great early work, Wittgenstein was straining at the limits of a logical,
systematic philosophy, and he probably means argument in the mathematical sense.
What may entice the viewer is not a resounding or
systematic philosophy in her work, but the manner in which she paints, draws, selects, builds, and designs sequences of modular forms in relation to a given architecture.