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A Scientifically Unimportant Discovery Is One Which, However True And However Interesting For Other Reasons, Has No Consequences For A System Of Theory With Which Scientists In That Field Are Concerned.

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.

The Importance Of Certain Problems Concerning The Facts Will Be Inherent In The Structure Of The System.

But The Fact A 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.

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.