Blending and appreciation of wisdom in its totality
Synoptic philosophy comes from the Greek word συνοπτικός synoptikos ("seeing everything together") and together with the word
philosophy, means the love of wisdom emerging from a coherent understanding of everything together.[1]
^Wilfrid Sellars (1962). "Philosophy and the Scientific Image of Man," in: Robert Colodny, ed., Frontiers of Science and Philosophy, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, pp. 35–78. Reprinted in Science, Perception and Reality (1963).
^Jay F. Rosenberg (1990). "Fusing the Images: Nachruf for Wilfrid Sellars." Journal for General Philosophy of Science, 21: 1–23.