Quotes by Talcott Parsons about Knowledge

7 quotes by Talcott Parsons about knowledge

Talcott Parsons American sociologist

But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of...

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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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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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...

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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....

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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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...

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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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