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Empirical Interest Will Be In The Facts So Far As They Are Relevant To The Solution Of These Problems.

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.

If There Are Four Equations And Only Three Variables, And No One Of The Equations Is Derivable From The Others By Algebraic Manipulation Then There Is Another Variable Missing.

Theory Not Only Formulates What We Know But Also Tells Us What We Want To Know, That Is, The Questions To Which An Answer Is Needed.

Sociology Should... Be Thought Of As A Science Of Action-of The Ultimate Common Value Element In Its Relations To The Other Elements Of Action.