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Science knows no ‘bare facts’ at all but that the ‘facts’ that enter our knowledge are already viewed in a certain way and are, therefore, essentially ideational.
Science knows no ‘bare facts’ at all but that the ‘facts’ that enter our knowledge are already viewed in a certain way and are, therefore, essentially ideational.
Against Method (1975), Verso Books, 1980. p.19.
Observations (observation terms) are not merely theory-laden (the position of Hanson, Hesse and others) but fully theoretical (observation statements have no 'observational core'.
Observations (observation terms) are not merely theory-laden (the position of Hanson, Hesse and others) but fully theoretical (observation statements have no 'observational core'.
"Introduction to volumes 1 and 2", Realism, rationalism and scientific method (Philosophical Papers, Vol. 1.), Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1981. p.x.
The best and most consise expression of the thesis can be found in Goethe: 'Das Hoechste zu begreifen waere, dass alles Faktische schon Theorie ist' ('Aus den Wanderjahren', Insel Werkausgabe (Frankfurt, 1970, vi, 468).
The best and most consise expression of the thesis can be found in Goethe: 'Das Hoechste zu begreifen waere, dass alles Faktische schon Theorie ist' ('Aus den Wanderjahren', Insel Werkausgabe (Frankfurt, 1970, vi, 468).
[The best thing to understand would be that everything factual is already theory.]
[The best thing to understand would be that everything factual is already theory.]
"Introduction to volumes 1 and 2", Realism, rationalism and scientific method (Philosophical Papers, Vol. 1.), Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1981. note 3.
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