Empirical interest will be in the facts so far as they are relevant to the solution of these problems.
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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.
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But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.
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