“Facts are needed to establish theories but theories are needed to make sense of facts.” Discuss this statement with reference to two areas of knowledge.

“Facts are needed to establish theories but theories are needed to make sense of facts.”
Discuss this statement with reference to two areas of knowledge.

AoKs

Natural Sciences

Relationship between fact and theory supports statement.

Counterclaim: ??

History

It would be an irresponsible historian who would suggest a theory with no facts to support it.

Arts

What is a fact in art?

Can theory drive art for example postmodernists interpretations of what art is?

Definition of fact

Evidently true

Based on evidence

Social facts

Human Sciences

Difficult to establish facts due to the un testable nature of many disciplines.

Theory

Examples of theories that do not work.

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Role of personal and shared knowledge?

Religious Knowledge Systems

Do religious facts exist?

Ethics.

Ethical theories exist that are based on seemingly similar facts. How is this the case?

Maths

Are axioms facts?

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Platonist or structuralist view of mathematics could change how we view subject in reference to the question.