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Talcott Parsons
 
Date of birth: 13 December 1902
Date of death: 08 May 1979
Country Of Origin: America
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" A gloss is a total system of perception and language. "

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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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" 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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" But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements. "

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" But 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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" Empirical interest will be in the facts so far as they are relevant to the solution of these problems. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" Knowledge is held to be an entirely quantitative affair. The one important thing is to have observed what had not been observed before. "

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" Moreover, the structure of a theoretical system tells us what alternatives are open in the possible answers to a given question. "

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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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