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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.

Spencers God Was Evolution, Sometimes Also Called Progress.

If Capitalism Begins As The Practical Idealism Of The Aspiring Bourgeoisie, It Ends ... As An Orgy Of Materialism.

If Observed Facts Of Undoubted Accuracy Will Not Fit Any Of The Alternatives It Leaves Open, The System Itself Is In Need Of Reconstruction.

The Implications Of These Considerations Justify The Statement That All Empirically Verifiable Knowledge Even The Commonsense Knowledge Of Everyday Life - Involves Implicitly, If Not Explicitly, Systematic Theory In This Sense.