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Architectonics

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Architectonics is the science pertaining to architecture.[1] Architectonic means relating to or characteristic of architecture, design and construction.[2]

In philosophy the term is used figuratively to mean foundational or fundamental, supporting the structure of a morality, society, or culture. In Kant's architectonic system there is a progression of phases from the most formal to the most empirical[3] C. S. Peirce adapted the Kantian concept as his blueprint for a pragmatic philosophy. Martial Gueroult wrote of "architectonic unities". Michel Foucault adapted the concept in his treatise The Archaeology of Knowledge

See also

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  • Aristotelianism, a philosophical tradition inspired by the work of Aristotle
  • The Archaeology of Knowledge (L’archéologie du savoir), a 1969 treatise by Michel Foucault
  • Cytoarchitecture, or cytoarchitectonics, the study of the cellular composition of the central nervous system's tissues under the microscope
  • Nanoarchitectonics, the arrangement of nanoscale structural units into complex configurations

References

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  1. ^ The dictionary definition of architectonics at Wiktionary
  2. ^ The dictionary definition of architectonic at Wiktionary
  3. ^ For an explanation of the logical structure of this progression, see Stephen Palmquist, "The Architectonic Form of Kant's Copernican Logic", Metaphilosophy 17:4 (October 1986), pp. 266–288; revised and reprinted as Chapter III of Stephen Palmquist, Kant's System of Perspectives: An architectonic interpretation of the Critical philosophy (Lanham: University Press of America, 1993). Also see the third appendix, entitled "Common Objections to Architectonic Reasoning".