Theoretical System Quotes
- Existing economics is a theoretical system which floats in the air and which bears little relation to what happens in the real world. — Ronald Coase
- It has been a fortunate fact in the modern history of physical science that the scientist constructing a new theoretical system has nearly always found… — R. B. Braithwaite
- 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. — Talcott Parsons
- It is that of increasing knowledge of empirical fact, intimately combined with changing interpretations of this body of fact - hence changing general statements about… — Talcott Parsons
- 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… — Talcott Parsons
- 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… — Talcott Parsons
- 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… — Talcott Parsons
- 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. — Talcott Parsons