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How to understand "with which facts" in this sentence?

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?

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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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