1. “The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.”
2. “A gloss is a total system of perception and language.”
3. “Special emphasis should be laid on this intimate interrelation of general statements about empirical fact with the logical elements and structure of theoretical systems.”
4. “Empirical interest will be in the facts so far as they are relevant to the solution of these problems.”
5. “The part an actor played on stage was once written on a separate roll of paper.”
6. “But the fact person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements.”
7. “The importance of certain problems concerning the facts will be inherent in the structure of the system.”
8. “If there are four equations and only three variables and no one of the equations is derivable from the others by algebraic manipulation then there is another variable missing.”
9. “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.”
10. “If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction.”
