Quotes about Knowledge by Talcott Parsons

Talcott Parsons American sociologist

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. 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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