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| 21461 | I tried to be unsystematic and piecemeal, but failed; my papers presuppose my other views |
| Full Idea: I should have like to be a piecemeal, unsystematic philosopher, offering independent proposals on a variety of topics. It was not be. I succumbed too often to the temptation to presuppose my views on one topic when writing on another. | |||
| From: David Lewis (Introduction to Philosophical Papers I [1983], p.1) | |||
| A reaction: He particularly mentions his possible worlds realism as a doctrine which coloured all his other work. A charming insight into the mind of a systematic thinker (called by someone 'the most systematic metaphysician since Leibniz'). |