ARE THEORY-RICH BRIDGE ASSUMPTIONS WORTHW HILE - A REPLY TO LINDENBERG,SIEGWART

This paper is a comment on an article by Lindenberg referring to our p aper on bridge assumptions. In this comment we underline that we do no t propose inductive inferences or claim for a naive empiristic positio n. We criticize Lindenberg for an inadequate extending of the notion ' 'theory'' and demonstrate that his theory of social productions functi ons does not satisfy Lindenberg's own crucial requirement for his theo ry i.e. predicting how people substitute between different instrumenta l goals in a situation.