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Man says that in social sciences, truth is derived through 'praxeological' reasoning, not empirical observation. i.e. you *deduce* and *reason out* truths rather than *calculate* or *observe* them.

Unlike natural sciences like physics, which rely on controlled experiments and isolated observation, social sciences like economics is about studying the laws of human action independent of data or sources.

Controlled experiments in human societies is not possible, as there are people who interact with each other and make hundreds of decisions based on hundreds of values and desires that are all unknowable.

Society is uncontrollable and unplannable. So one can't understand it using statistics, equations and math models.
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MAHDOOD 9mo ago

I think I read that in human action or something similar to that. It’s one of the arguments I made against someone who claimed that the government runs all these simulations and tests to know exactly how much oppression they can create to control people. But a simulation cannot consistently predict human action because of those countless calculations we make.

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sachin 9mo ago

Yes sir

I think these are things that people implicitly understand but their 'education' and 'critical thinking' confuses them

It was like that for me 😭