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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Science is intimately integrated with the whole social structure and cultural tradition. They mutually support one other -- only in certain types of society can science flourish, and conversely without a continuous and healthy development and application of science such a society cannot function properly.Talcott Parsons
The simplest way to see the meaning of the concept of a closed, system in this sense is to consider the example of a system of simultaneous equations.
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Of course there may well be particular reasons why Spencer rather than others is dead, as there were also particular reasons why he rather than others made such a stir.
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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.
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The importance of certain problems concerning the facts will be inherent in the structure of the system.
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From all this it follows what the general character of the problem of the development of a body of scientific knowledge is, in so far as it depends on elements internal to science itself.
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