Only what is whole is real Our only contact with reality is in the totality of immediate experience. Only what is whole is real, but reasoning can only operate by breaking up the totality, yet the moment it does, it is enmeshed in falsehood. It can only redeem itself by acknowledging that its analytical proceeding is a necessity to be humbly endured, not a virtue to be vaunted. Philosophy cannot examine things piecemeal. It is the hallmark of philosophy to aim at the comprehensive view, to see all questions as aspects of one underlying problem.
Contemporary philosophers revel in the piecemeal.
A philosophical statement is an intelligible whole. Its intelligibility is its reality and is of the nature of the aesthetic coherence of a symphony or a poem. Deductive thinking always proceeds within a closed system. Nothing original is arrived at in the process. No argument could have more force.