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There is nothing we can't do. So it's just the fact that we're doing topics like that that other people, especially network TV, won't touch, that we're satirists.


Trey Parker


#especially #fact #just #like #network

Not a breath of air stirred over the free and open prairie; the clouds were like light piles of cotton; and where the blue sky was visible, it wore a hazy and languid aspect.


Francis Parkman


#aspect #blue #blue sky #breath #clouds

We were soon free of the woods and bushes, and fairly upon the broad prairie.


Francis Parkman


#bushes #fairly #free #prairie #soon

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

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


#framework #group #interrelated #involve #logical

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


#considerations #empirically #even #everyday #everyday life

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






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