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.
Talcott ParsonsEmpirical interest will be in the facts so far as they are relevant to the solution of these problems.
Talcott ParsonsThe implications of these considerations justify the statement that all empirically verifiable knowledge even the commonsense knowledge of everyday life - involves implicitly, if not explicitly, systematic theory in this sense.
Talcott ParsonsBut the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.
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