Can There Be, Ultimately, Only One Valid Total System?

“Fundamentally, all philosophers agree” (Durant 1938: 185). Perhaps all controversy, all attempts by new generations of philosophers to assert oppositions to the old, is merely a gigantic example of pseudo-disagreement. In other words, perhaps the appearance of opposition lies in the fact that systematicians have not been able to “translate” among different styles of expression or different languages and that this has led to polemicized characterizations of each other’s work. Another possibility is that they have understood each other’s work but simply (1) assert that only one style of expression is correct and (2) believe that argumentation must be formulated as if disagreement concerns fact and not expression.