American - Sociologist | December 13, 1902 - May 8, 1979
The importance of certain problems concerning the facts will be inherent in the structure of the system.
Talcott Parsons
ProblemsFactsWillStructureSystem
The part an actor played on stage was once written on a separate roll of paper.
ActorStagePaperRollOncePart
The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.
FamilyPersonalitySocietyBehalf
But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.
ChangeKnowledgeConsequencesSystem
Empirical interest will be in the facts so far as they are relevant to the solution of these problems.
ProblemsFactsSolutionWillFar
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.
NowMattersSystemClaimFactDid
Of course there may well be particular reasons why Spencer rather than others is dead, as there were also particular reasons why he rather than others made such a stir.
WhyOthersDeadMayWellMade
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.
DirectionWillFirstStructureFact
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.
LifeKnowledgeEverydayEveryday Life
The system becomes logically closed when each of the logical implications which can be derived from any one proposition within the system finds its statement in another proposition in the same system.
SameWithinSystemStatementLogical
A gloss is a total system of perception and language.
PerceptionLanguageSystemTotal
If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction.
FactsAccuracyWillNeedOpenFit
Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Talcott Parsons quotes