The main concern of the study is with the outline of a theoretical system. Its minor variations from writer to writer are not a matter of concern to this analysis.
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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
Empirical interest will be in the facts so far as they are relevant to the solution of these problems.
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Spencer's god was Evolution, sometimes also called Progress.
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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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Now obviously the propositions of the system have reference to matters of empirical fact; if they did not, they could have no claim to be called scientific.
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The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing.
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