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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


#character #desirable #diversity #great #intellectual

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


#alternatives #any #facts #fit #itself

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


#fact #failing #him #his #implicit

Empirical interest will be in the facts so far as they are relevant to the solution of these problems.


Talcott Parsons


#facts #far #interest #problems #relevant

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.


Talcott Parsons


#body #changing #combined #empirical #empirical fact

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


#claim #could #did #empirical #empirical fact

Special emphasis should be laid on this intimate interrelation of general statements about empirical fact with the logical elements and structure of theoretical systems.


Talcott Parsons


#elements #emphasis #empirical #empirical fact #fact

Thus, in general, in the first instance, the direction of interest in empirical fact will be canalised by the logical structure of the theoretical system.


Talcott Parsons


#empirical #empirical fact #fact #first #general

Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.


Blaise Pascal


#fortifies #more #nothing #scepticism #some

We've lost 3,000 jobs in Beaufort County. We've lost half of our manufacturing workforce.


Tommy Thompson


#half #jobs #lost #manufacturing #our