{{Short description|Philosophical concept}} In philosophy, '''architectonics''' is used figuratively (after ''architecture'') 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<ref>For an explanation of the logical structure of this progression, see Stephen Palmquist, "[https://www.hkbu.edu.hk/~ppp/ksp1/KSP3.html 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, [http://www.hkbu.edu.hk/~ppp/ksp1 ''Kant's System of Perspectives'']: ''An architectonic interpretation of the Critical philosophy'' (Lanham: University Press of America, 1993). Also see the third appendix, entitled "[https://www.hkbu.edu.hk/~ppp/ksp1/KSP3A.html Common Objections to Architectonic Reasoning]".</ref> 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== * Aristotelianism, a philosophical tradition inspired by the work of Aristotle * ''The Archaeology of Knowledge'' (''L’archéologie du savoir''), a 1969 treatise by Michel Foucault
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