“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. 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.”

— Talcott Parsons

Source: The structure of social action (1937), p. 8

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American sociologist 1902–1979

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