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Talcott Parsons
American Sociologist
Born: Dec 13, 1902
Died: May 8, 1979
Also Empirical Fact Facts Knowledge Will
Related authors: C. Wright Mills Charles Horton Cooley Deborah Tannen Ivan Illich Matthew Desmond Samuel P. Huntington Thomas E. Mann William Julius Wilson
If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction. Talcott Parsons
Will System Reconstruction Facts Open Observed Alternatives Leaves Fit Itself Accuracy Any Need
But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory. Talcott Parsons
Knowledge Change Consequences Consists System Having Fact Importance Scientific Precisely Theory
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. Talcott Parsons
Character Knowledge Science Problem Follows General Development Scientific Scientific Knowledge Itself Depends Far Body Internal Elements
That is, a system starts with a group of interrelated propositions which involve reference to empirical observations within the logical framework of the propositions in question. Talcott Parsons
Logical Group Starts Framework System Observations Empirical Involve Within Reference Question Which Interrelated
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. Talcott Parsons
Great Character Respect Diversity Those Possible Tradition Intellectual Personal Social Milieu Who Satisfactory Among Desirable
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. Talcott Parsons
Word Statements No Reason Fact Investigate He Taking Failing Implicit Involved Him His Denies Person Theory Reason
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. Talcott Parsons
Matters Claim System Fact Could Empirical Obviously Scientific Reference Did Now
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 theoretical system on the other. Talcott Parsons
Knowledge Matter Other Changes Reciprocal System Has-Been Insights Investigation Factual Part Hypothesis Put Development New Tested Been Hand Subsequent May Interaction Theoretical Forward Large Large Part
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. Talcott Parsons
Life Knowledge Everyday Life Sense Everyday Considerations Statement Systematic Implications Implicitly Empirically Involves Verifiable Justify Commonsense Explicitly Theory Even

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