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• ‟ If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction.

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• ‟ The importance of certain problems concerning the facts will be inherent in the structure of the system.

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• ‟ Empirical interest will be in the facts so far as they are relevant to the solution of these problems.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ In so far as such a theory is empirically correct it will also tell us what empirical facts it should be possible to observe in a given set of circumstances.

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