English Language & Usage Asked by debiluz on May 10, 2021
I found this sentence in "The structure of scientific revolutions" – "Attempts to increase the accuracy and scope with which facts like these are known occupy a significant fraction of the literature of experimental and observational science". How to understand "with which facts" here, especially "with"? Is it a decoration of scope?
Paraphrase:
Facts like these are known but they need to be known more accurately and have a greater scope because they occupy a significant fraction of the literature of experimental and observational science".
Attempts to increase the accuracy and scope – Noun phrase = Subject
with which (i.e. referering to the accuracy and scope of) facts like these are known – adjectival clause modifying “the accuracy and scope”
occupy – finite verb
a significant fraction of the literature of experimental and observational science" – Noun phrase = Object
With which it is verbed - Compare: This is the soup and this is the spoon with which it is stirred.
Answered by Greybeard on May 10, 2021
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