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Facts Quotes by Talcott Parsons
- If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction.
- Empirical interest will be in the facts so far as they are relevant to the solution of these problems.
- But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.
- The importance of certain problems concerning the facts will be inherent in the structure of the system.
- 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.
- 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…
- It is that of increasing knowledge of empirical fact, intimately combined with changing interpretations of this body of fact - hence changing general statements about…
- Special emphasis should be laid on this intimate interrelation of general statements about empirical fact with the logical elements and structure of theoretical systems.
- In so far as such a theory is empirically correct it will also tell us what empirical facts it should be possible to observe in…
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