#theoretical

A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

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The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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Mental illness, of course, is not literally a 'thing' - or physical object - and hence it can 'exist' only in the same sort of way in which other theoretical concepts exist. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

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Thus her whole identity hangs in the balance of her love life. She is allowed to love herself only if a man finds her worthy of love. ↗

— Shulamith Firestone

#life

I am now convinced that theoretical physics is actually philosophy. ↗

— Max Born

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While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially it is an impossibility. ↗

— Lee De Forest

#feasible #financially #impossibility #may #technically

Emancipated' women found out that the honesty, generosity, and camaraderie of men was a lie. ↗

— Shulamith Firestone

#men

The amount of detailed information which an individual has at his command and his theoretical elaborations of the same are mutually dependent; they grow in and through each other. ↗

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

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I recognise that Socialism has ended its purely theoretical course, and that the hour to construct has come. ↗

— John Burns

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I think philosophers can do things akin to theoretical scientists, in that, having read about empirical data, they too can think of what hypotheses and theories might account for that data. So there's a continuity between philosophy and science in that way. ↗

— Robert Nozick

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