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> |> However my son ! Facts are never presecribed by theory, facts are the   
> |> results of observation.  
  
What facts ? What observations ?  
An observation is conducted according to a theory, in the first place...  
  
> I don't have much of a clue what "prescribed" means here.  Perhaps  
> what is meant is that the range of "possible facts" or the range  
> of "descriptions of facts" is limited by theory.  That wouldn't be  
> *so* bad a claim.  
>   
> |> For example, electrons were there much before quantum mechanics  
  
'electrons were there' ?! according to what theory ?  
  
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> A great deal of  
> *theory* needs to come into play in order to describe how an electron  
> is observed (if indeed we want to say that this is possible) or  
> what "observed" *means* when applied to electrons.  
  
exactly..  
  
> Gary H. Merrill  [Principal Systems Developer, C Compiler Development]