Systems and Self-Exemplification

Peirce's classification of Logic as a species of Semiotic suggests one, perhaps a unique, perhaps an essential, characteristic of Philosophical Systems in general. Not only is his own Logic a species of Semiotic, but so too is everything that he writes, including his theory of Semiotics, subject to Semiotic analysis. So, more generally, a Philosophical System must account for itself. Aristotle's dislocation of 'thought thinking itself' from the rest of his Ethics, is a tacit acknowledgement that his Ethical System does not account for itself. In contrast, the Systems of Kant, and of those he most directly influences, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, and the Pragmaticists, are all self-applying, whereas for Analytic Philosophy, 'self-referentiality' is no more than an abstract intellectual puzzle. Evolvementalism presumes itself to be self-exemplifying.