A philosophy should be:

• Understood as an instrument that is adopted and used (instrumentalism)
• Expected to disappear in use and become a ready-to-mind producer of self-evident truths for its user
• Designed with a subjective user experience (perceiving, understanding, anticipating, responding) as its primary purpose and mode of being, and its objective forms (presentation, argument, vocabulary, etc.) serving as a means to this subjective end
• Evaluated as a designed experience according to its varying degrees of usefulness, usability and desirability
• Understood to be used for specific purposes in specific contexts
• Approached as potentially designable
• Approached as briefable (framed as a formalized design problem)
• Informed by design research
• Developed using designerly instauration methods
• Produced nonlinearly, through iterative rounds of testing, evaluation and redesign
• Understood to be shaped by tradeoffs
• Understood to serve as a mind-reality interface mediating interaction with transcendent realities
• Understood as a system existing within larger ecosystems, with which it must cooperate
• Understood to be designed using earlier generations of philosophical instruments