#7 Pareto’s advice on how to study multidisciplinary social science

Let there be given any proposition—and to leave it indeterminate we shall express it by saying “A is B.” It is customary for the theorist to hold the view — whereas empiricists instinctively avoid such errors — that the effect of the proposition on a society depends solely on whether it is objectively true or false and on whether or not it is known to t…