synthetic philosophy

To complete even in outline the vast sweep of his projected Synthetic Philosophy two steps more remained for Spencer to take.

This is a statement in which the author of the Synthetic Philosophy would probably have very little change to suggest.

His Synthetic Philosophy perhaps did more than anything else to make the idea of evolution familiar in England.

His Synthetic Philosophy had a grand aim, but it was manifestly unsatisfactory.

Indeed, there is a hint that a synthetic philosophy is exactly what Davidson never seeks to attain.