Empirical interest will be in the facts so far as they are relevant to the solution of these problems.
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But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements.Talcott Parsons
The hypothesis may be put forward, to be tested by the s subsequent investigation, that this development has been in large part a matter of the reciprocal interaction of new factual insights and knowledge on the one hand with changes in the theoretical system on the other.
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Moreover, the structure of a theoretical system tells us what alternatives are open in the possible answers to a given question.
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But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.
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Knowledge is held to be an entirely quantitative affair. The one important thing is to have observed what had not been observed before.
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A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.
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