The implications of these considerations justify the statement that all empirically verifiable knowledge even the commonsense knowledge of everyday life - involves implicitly, if not explicitly, systematic theory in this sense. — Talcott Parsons Copy Share Image
The system becomes logically closed when each of the logical implications which can be derived from any one proposition within the system finds its statement in another proposition in the same system. — Talcott Parsons Copy Share Image
A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been… — Talcott Parsons Copy Share Image
The main concern of the study is with the outline of a theoretical system. Its minor variations from writer to writer are not a… — Talcott Parsons Copy Share Image
But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what… — Talcott Parsons Copy Share Image
The hypothesis may be put forward, to be tested by the s subsequent investigation, that this development has been in large part a matter… — Talcott Parsons Copy Share Image
The implications of these considerations justify the statement that all empirically verifiable knowledge even the commonsense knowledge of everyday life - involves implicitly, if… — Talcott Parsons Copy Share Image
In so far as such a theory is empirically correct it will also tell us what empirical facts it should be possible to observe… — Talcott Parsons Copy Share Image
The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school… — Talcott Parsons Copy Share Image
If capitalism begins as the practical idealism of the aspiring bourgeoisie, it ends ... as an orgy of materialism. — Talcott Parsons Copy Share Image
The part an actor played on stage was once written on a separate roll of paper. — Talcott Parsons Copy Share Image
Theory not only formulates what we know but also tells us what we want to know, that is, the questions to which an answer… — Talcott Parsons Copy Share Image
Thus, in general, in the first instance, the direction of interest in empirical fact will be canalised by the logical structure of the theoretical… — Talcott Parsons Copy Share Image
That is, a system starts with a group of interrelated propositions which involve reference to empirical observations within the logical framework of the propositions… — Talcott Parsons Copy Share Image
