how the aliens' implications relate to social science

ok, so upon first glance it seems like i've detracted from social science with my previous post; this is actually untrue. let's revisit what exactly i wrote. first of all, i wrote that the best way to know is through the first-order because "one can establish the variables necessary for abstraction to be more metaphysically accurate representations of themselves in abstraction." however, if one simply accepts the variables necessary for abstraction to be less metaphysically accurate representations of themselves in abstraction due to the nature of the discipline -- social science -- then there is nothing wrong with applying the scientific method and arriving at results that are less accurate. i do want to state something for clarification's sake before one might be misled by the previous sentence: having less metaphysically accurate variables does not necessarily mean that the accompanying scientific paradigm covers a broader domain. why is this? because of the *to know/to be spectrum*, the ideas of knowing and being are highly subjective, to say the least. as a result, the domain size for both social science and hard science is the same unless one is able to establish an objective hierarchy for definitions of *to know* and *to be*. this is exemplified in how reducing matter to the atomic level is central to physics, and examining people's behaviors is on the level of social science, but then on an ultra-macro level of astronomy, physics, by studying atoms, has given us insight into the the grand inner workings of the universe.