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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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  • 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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  • Thus, in general, in the first instance, the direction of interest in empirical fact will be canalised by the logical structure of the theoretical system.
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