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.
Gist of Idea
I tried to be unsystematic and piecemeal, but failed; my papers presuppose my other views
Source
David Lewis (Introduction to Philosophical Papers I [1983], p.1)
Book Reference
Lewis,David: 'Philosophical Papers Vol.1' [OUP 1983], p.-5
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').