If Observed Facts Of Undoubted Accuracy Will

Spencers God Was Evolution, Sometimes Also Called Progress.

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.

The Hypothesis May Be Put Forward, To Be Tested By The S Subsequent Investigation, That This Development Has Been In Large Part A Matter Of The Reciprocal Interaction Of New Factual Insights And Knowledge On The One Hand With Changes In The Theoretical System On The Other.

Special Emphasis Should Be Laid On This Intimate Interrelation Of General Statements About Empirical Fact With The Logical Elements And Structure Of Theoretical Systems.

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.