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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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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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“A scientifically unimportant discovery is one which, however true and however interesting for other reasons, has no consequences for a system of theory with which scientists in that field are concerned.”

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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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