“ The importance of certain problems concerning the facts will be inherent in the structure of the system. ”
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“ The simplest way to see the meaning of the concept of a closed, system in this sense is to consider the example of a system of simultaneous equations. ”
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“ 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. ”
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“ The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing. ”
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“ The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing. ”
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“ The simplest way to see the meaning of the concept of a closed, system in this sense is to consider the example of a system of simultaneous equations. ”
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“ Of course there may well be particular reasons why Spencer rather than others is dead, as there were also particular reasons why he rather than others made such a stir. ”
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“ If there are four equations and only three variables, and no one of the equations is derivable from the others by algebraic manipulation then there is another variable missing. ”
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“ The importance of certain problems concerning the facts will be inherent in the structure of the system. ”
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“ Science is intimately integrated with the whole social structure and cultural tradition. They mutually support one another — only in certain types of society can science flourish, and conversely without a continuous and healthy development and application of science such a society cannot function properly. ”
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“ The simplest way to see the meaning of the concept of a closed, system in this sense is to consider the example of a system of simultaneous equations. ”
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“ Science is intimately integrated with the whole social structure and cultural tradition. They mutually support one another — only in certain types of society can science flourish, and conversely without a continuous and healthy development and application of science such a society cannot function properly. ”
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“ If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction. ”
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“ 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. ”
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“ Science is intimately integrated with the whole social structure and cultural tradition. They mutually support one another — only in certain types of society can science flourish, and conversely without a continuous and healthy development and application of science such a society cannot function properly. ”
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“ The part an actor played on stage was once written on a separate roll of paper. ”
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“ 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. ”
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“ Spencer's god was Evolution, sometimes also called Progress. ”
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“ Science is intimately integrated with the whole social structure and cultural tradition. They mutually support one another — only in certain types of society can science flourish, and conversely without a continuous and healthy development and application of science such a society cannot function properly. ”
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“ The importance of certain problems concerning the facts will be inherent in the structure of the system. ”
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“ The part an actor played on stage was once written on a separate roll of paper. ”
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“ Now obviously the propositions of the system have reference to matters of empirical fact; if they did not, they could have no claim to be called scientific. ”
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“ From all this it follows what the general character of the problem of the development of a body of scientific knowledge is, in so far as it depends on elements internal to science itself. ”
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“ Empirical interest will be in the facts so far as they are relevant to the solution of these problems. ”
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“ 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. ”
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“ 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. ”
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“ Science is intimately integrated with the whole social structure and cultural tradition. They mutually support one another — only in certain types of society can science flourish, and conversely without a continuous and healthy development and application of science such a society cannot function properly. ”
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“ Science is intimately integrated with the whole social structure and cultural tradition. They mutually support one another — only in certain types of society can science flourish, and conversely without a continuous and healthy development and application of science such a society cannot function properly. ”
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“ If there are four equations and only three variables, and no one of the equations is derivable from the others by algebraic manipulation then there is another variable missing. ”
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