The procedures of measurement and the interpretation of the resulting numerical values depend on implicit theoretical assumptions. (religion-online.org)
In some cases of discrepancy between theory and data, he points out, it is the implicit theoretical assumptions in the data which have been challenged. (religion-online.org)
When two theories conflict, their protagonists can withdraw, not to a supposedly pure observation language, but to an observation language whose theoretical assumptions are not immediately at issue. (religion-online.org)