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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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Book:The Structure of Social Action: A Study in Social Theory with Special Reference to a Group of Recent European Writers
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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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Book:The Structure of Social Action: A Study in Social Theory with Special Reference to a Group of Recent European Writers
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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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