A term used by Immanuel Kant and adopted by Charles Sanders Peirce, which describes a systematic rather than a random manner in which scientific research should be conducted.
It may be suggested that we do not know enough to construct a system of knowledge.
But this suggestion may be objected to precisely because we know enough, we need a system, or at least we need to work systematically.
In his book, The Critique of Pure Reason, Kant offers the following definition: “By architectonic I mean the art of constructing systems.”
Since scientific knowledge is marked first and foremost by its systematic form, “architectonics is the doctrine of the scientific in our knowledge.”
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