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System Quotes by Talcott Parsons
- A scientifically unimportant discovery is one which, however true and however interesting for other reasons, has no consequences for a system of theory with which…
- If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction.
- A gloss is a total system of perception and language.
- 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.
- 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…
- 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…
- That is, a system starts with a group of interrelated propositions which involve reference to empirical observations within the logical framework of the propositions in…
- 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…
- Thus, in general, in the first instance, the direction of interest in empirical fact will be canalised by the logical structure of the theoretical system.
- 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…
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