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The problem of empirical verification is ‘how to get down to facts' yet not get overwhelmed by them; how to anchor ideas to facts but not to sink the ideas. The problem is first what to verify and second how to verify it.
In grand theory, verification is hopefully deductive; neither what to verify nor how to verify it seems, as yet, a very definite problem.