Group Quote by Talcott Parsons

Special emphasis should be laid on this intimate interrelation of general statements about empirical fact with the logical elements and structure of theoretical systems.

— 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…

— Talcott Parsons

Now obviously the propositions of the system have reference to matters of empirical fact; if they did not, they could have no claim to…

— 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…

— Talcott Parsons

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

As soon as science has emerged from its initial stages, theoretical advances are no longer achieved merely by a process of arrangement. Guided by…

— Albert Einstein

The fundamental principle in the analysis of propositions containing descriptions is this: Every proposition which we can understand must be composed wholly of constituents…

— Bertrand Russell

“It is necessary, first of all, to find a correct logical starting point, one which can lead us to a natural and sound interpretation…

— Ernst Cassirer

Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an outline of…

— Jacques Derrida

Logic, it is often said, is the study of valid arguments. It is a systematic attempt to distinguish valid arguments from invalid arguments

— Anonymous

The aim ... is to provide a clear and rigorous basis for determining when a causal ordering can be said to hold between two…

— Herbert Simon

The meaning of a proposition is the method of its verification.

— Moritz Schlick