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• ‟ A gloss is a total system of perception and language.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ That is, a system starts with a group of interrelated propositions which involve reference to empirical observations within the logical framework of the propositions in question.

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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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• ‟ Now obviously the propositions of the system have reference to matters of empirical fact; if they did not, they could have no claim to be called scientific.

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• ‟ The system becomes logically closed when each of the logical implications which can be derived from any one proposition within the system finds its statement in another proposition in the same system.

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