"It is only appropriate, however, to acknowledge from the outset that i consider this thesis - and indeed the entire empiricist-positivist research program...(that) dominated ideologically during most of the twentieth century, as fundamentally mistaken and throughly refuted.(...)
A priori theory trumps and corrects experience (and logic overrules obervation), and not vice-versa.
More importantly, examples of a priori theory also abound in the social sciences, in particular in the fields of political economy and philosophy: Human action is an actor´s purposeful pursuit of valued ends with scarce means. No one can purposefully not act. Every action is aimed at improving the actor´s subjective well-being above what it otherwise would have been. A larger quantity of a good is valued more highly than a smaller quantity of the same good. Satisfaction earlier is preferred over satisfaction later. Production must precede consumption. (...) Interpersonal conflict is possible only if and insofar as things are scarce."
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