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/ page 1042 of 1205 /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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Among those who are satisfactory in this respect it is desirable to have represented as great a diversity of intellectual tradition, social milieu and personal character as possible.
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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 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.
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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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In so far as such a theory is empirically correct it will also tell us what empirical facts it should be possible to observe in a given set of circumstances.
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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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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.
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That is, a system starts with a group of interrelated propositions which involve reference to empirical observations within the logical framework of the propositions in question.
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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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The part an actor played on stage was once written on a separate roll of paper.
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Special emphasis should be laid on this intimate interrelation of general statements about empirical fact with the logical elements and structure of theoretical systems.
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The system becomes logically closed when each of the logical implications which can be derived from any one proposition within the system finds its statement in another proposition in the same system.
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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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The importance of certain problems concerning the facts will be inherent in the structure of the system.
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No bad man can be a good poet.
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Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
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As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.
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At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.
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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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