sentences:  D’Alembert acknowledges that “it is no less difficult to encompass the infinitely varied branches of human knowledge in a truly unified system,” (5), yet despite this seemingly formidable task, D’Alembert succeeds in fulfilling the purpose of the Encyclopedia, which was to gather all the facets of knowledge into one unified text, and to compile knowledge in a way that it could be standardized and compartmentalized into different categories.With this method, d’Alembert believed the "philosophes" could create a system of knowledge that would be unified and systematized, but not so rigid and strict as to impose limits on the search for new facts.A classic example of this systematized approach is the aforementioned "figurative system of human knowledge", which quantifies knowledge by dividing it into three categories