The importance of certain problems concerning the facts will be inherent in the structure of the system.

The importance of certain problems concerning the facts will be inherent in the structure of the system.

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 theoretical development, are completely trivial from any point of view except their relevance to the structure of a theoretical system.

Spencers god was Evolution, sometimes also called Progress.

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 - and, not least, a changing a structure of the theoretical system.

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 reciprocal interaction of new factual insights and knowledge on the one hand with changes in the theoretical system on the other.

Sociology should... be thought of as a science of action-of the ultimate common value element in its relations to the other elements of action.