A Quote by Talcott Parsons

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

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Knowledge About Body Changing Combined Empirical Fact General Hence Increasing Increasing Knowledge Interpretations Least Statements Structure System Theoretical

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Talcott Parsons
American - Sociologist
December 13, 1902 - May 8, 1979

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

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

The body and mind are continually changing, and are, in fact, only names of series of changeful phenomena, like rivers whose waters are in a constant state of flux, yet presenting the appearance of unbroken streams. Every particle in this body is continually changing; no one has the same body for many minutes together, and yet we think of it as the same body.

Swami Vivekananda

We completely deny the existence of a self-existent I, or a permanent, independent soul. Every aspect of your body and mind is impermanent: changing, changing, changing.

Thubten Yeshe

I honestly believe going independent is the future. Social is changing, Spotify is changing, everything is changing.

Madison Beer

Changing Myrtle Beach? It makes me feel very good ... If it's changing, it's changing for the positive.

Barbara Eden

Technology is changing the world; it's changing our sport. It's changing the way people are following the NBA.

Adam Silver

Changing technologies, changing marketplaces, and even changing trends in anti-competitive practices have all presented challenges to antitrust enforcement.

Al Franken

Here's the problem: we are living in a time when the act of reading is changing. The nature of a reader's attention is changing. The capacity for deep literary engagement is changing.

Ayad Akhtar

Dangal' movie has been made on our lives in which two daughters win a medal for the country. It just shows that the times are changing and people's attitudes are changing and if it is changing because of us then we are very happy about it.

Geeta Phogat

Taste is changing, style is changing, and players abilities are changing.

Neville Marriner

Taste is changing, style is changing, and players' abilities are changing.

Neville Marriner

It should simply be an empirical matter whether the climate is changing or not and whether we're responsible. But the various sides of the debate have now become so tribal that it's no longer a matter of changing our views as more information comes in.

Ian Mcewan

Change isn't easy. Changing the way you live means changing the way you think, means changing what you believe about life. That's hard.

Dean Koontz

Armstrong was the equivalent of Russia's Snowden. He has this explosive game-changing, sport-changing, world-changing evidence that he wants to bring forward, and essentially me and my film team are going to facilitate him doing that.

Bryan Fogel

... because lifestyles are changing constantly the rules of etiquette are changing too -- a little slower than lifestyles perhaps, but still changing.

Angela Lansbury

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