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Knowledge Quotes by Talcott Parsons
- But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.
- It is that of increasing knowledge of empirical fact, intimately combined with changing interpretations of this body of fact - hence changing general statements about…
- It is probably safe to say that all the changes of factual knowledge which have led to the relativity theory, resulting in a very great…
- 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 implications of these considerations justify the statement that all empirically verifiable knowledge even the commonsense knowledge of everyday life - involves implicitly, if not…
- 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…
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