If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction.
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.
The United States could transform its property tax system into a progressive tax on net worth without asking permission to the rest of the world.
I've always had a massive fascination with the modern day cowboys. Modern day outlaws or going against the system, and that's always been very intriguing to me.
Around '75 when the recession hit, club owners started going to disco because it was cheaper for them to just buy a sound system than it was to hire a band.
If the Ivy League was the breeding ground for the elites of the American Century, Stanford is the farm system for Silicon Valley.
I was fascinated with the phone system and how it worked; I became a hacker to get better control over the phone company.
Like any organic entity, a system of consciousness manifests itself through the orderly, differentiated development of a certain unifying reality.
Unauthorized access to computer systems is already a serious crime in a few states and is currently being addressed in many more state legislatures as well as Congress.
Well, the big elephant in the whole system is the baby boomer generation that marches through like a herd of elephants. And we begin to retire in 2008.
A carrier with a venereal disease can have many partners, but only those whose mental and physical immune systems are weak will be susceptible to it.
Marry your offline and online systems. So when you meet someone in person, make sure to connect with them online, too!
People of all countries have the right to choose their own social system and road to development in the light of their national conditions and characteristics.
If there's been a crisis in a market, you don't tend to have a new crisis in that market until the people who went through the last crisis aren't in the system anymore.
You can't, in the 21st century, continue to live in a system where people live under martial law for 30 years.
The body maintains balance in only a handful of ways. At the end of the day, disease occurs when these basic systems are out of whack.
Communism may be over as an economic system, but as a model of state domination, it is very much alive in the People's Republic of China and in Putin's police state.
The Jewish nation is indeed, the heart of the world and there is no reason for the existence of empires, kings, rulers, masses or systems aside from their reaction to the Jewish people.
If sexual intercourse, as the poets tell us, began in 1963, it was another decade and a half before the American political system began to take notice.
The American political system is so porous, it's so open, it's so frustrating for those who are trying to make policy.
I'm tired of this discussion of capitalism and socialism; we live in the 21st century, we need an economic system that has democracy as its underpinnings and an ethical code.
