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Theory is most productive not when it gives the right answers but when it poses the right question

From Principles of a general social theory, by Alain Caillé, Frédéric Vandenberghe pg 29:

Although we admire well-crafted systematic theories, we think that theory is most productive not when it gives the right answers (and even less when it gives a priori answers) but when it poses the right questions; to organize questions in such a way that one can give good responses to empirical questions, that is the task of a good theory. It unsettles, provokes, throws new light on old responses and raises new questions.

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