The transposition of positivist methodologies from the natural sciences to the domain of social inquiry presents a series of profound epistemological challenges. Positivism, with its fundamental commitment to empirical verification and the formulation of nomothetic laws, presupposes an objective reality amenable to direct observation and quantification. This paradigm, however, falters when confronted with the intrinsic nature of social phenomena, which are not merely physical events but are constituted by subjective meanings, intentions, and intersubjective norms. The veridicality of social research, therefore, cannot be assessed through sensory data alone, as the objects of study—concepts such as 'social cohesion' or 'political legitimacy'—are not empirically discrete entities but are instead value-laden constructs. A significant critique stems from the hermeneutic tradition, which posits that understanding (Verstehen) human action requires an interpretive approach rather than causal explanation (Erklären). Social actions are embedded within complex webs of significance that are culturally and historically contingent. Consequently, a purely quantitative analysis risks performing a category error, treating meaningful behavior as if it were mere physical motion. This methodological disjuncture highlights the problem of empirical commensurability: the difficulty of rendering qualitatively distinct social experiences and motivations into a standardized, numerically tractable format without stripping them of their essential context. The aspiration to achieve value-neutral objectivity is thereby complicated, as the very act of operationalizing a social concept is an interpretive decision, not a neutral measurement. This results in a fundamental ontological dissonance, where the assumed nature of reality within the research paradigm is incongruent with the character of the social world it purports to investigate.