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Theorizing is of course essential to make progress in understanding, but theorizing in the absence of knowing available relevant facts is not very productive.

Patricia Churchland
Knowing, Understanding, Progress
"Causal machines". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 10, 2012.
Theorizing is of course essential to make progress in understanding, but theorizing in the absence of knowing available relevant facts is not very productive.