I think you're both still talking past one another. > Social sciences give us the general capability to ask those questions and understand the answers. This i

I think you're both still talking past one another. > Social sciences give us the general capability to ask those questions and understand the answers. This is almost tautological depending on where those fields lie between physics and philosophy. Chemistry is just applied Physics. Biology is just applied Chemistry. Neurology is just applied biology. But psychology (and by extension, sociology) is firmly on the Philosophy side of the fence in my uneducated opinion.