The 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.

The 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.

A gloss is a total system of perception and language.

Spencers god was Evolution, sometimes also called Progress.

But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.

Theory not only formulates what we know but also tells us what we want to know, that is, the questions to which an answer is needed.

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.