Use Of The Deductive Method Is "Cutting Edge" Science.

With regards testing, “What makes natural science possible is the power to experiment; what makes social science possible is the power to grasp or to comprehend the meaning of human action.” [4] Using the deductive or a priori method to bridge the gaps between the world of things and the world of thoughts and emotions - and reasoning from previous experience or from established principles to particular facts - we proceed, confirming observation and experimental data as a well as replacing them. Such is life on the cutting edge!

Liberty & Justice of Economic Equilibrium, p. 2

[4] Ludwig von Mises, Money, Method, and the Market Process, (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1990), p. 9.

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