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Outlining a theory about the social sciences and critiquing social science thinking as thinking that creates false theories must fail—according to social science thinking. Thanks to their concept of critique social science thinking is immune against a critique that critiques false thought. Since social sciences deny that theorizing about the social—and since T. Kuhn's book interpretation through the social sciences also theorizing in natural sciences about the nature—are able to create right theories, there cannot be any critique that a theory is a false theory. Social science theories may well be critiqued, but this critique is not a critique of any false theory, but a critique that argues against all the ex-ante definitions any social science theorizing requires to reveal all its ethical, ontological and methodological choices theorizing must make, choices of what a theory is about and how a theory intends to think about any object of thinking. It is not at all the case that social sciences are not inviting critique. However it is a critique that does not allow critiquing theories as false theories. It is the ex-ante definitions and choices which open a wide field for critique about all those choices and definitions, however, a critique that a theory creates false thought is no option in this kind of critique, since any theory can be only false in relation to the choices and definitions it must make for theorizing. Nevertheless, since even all these tautological cognitive operations of a critique of in this sense false thought in social sciences, like any scientific thought, require to be made plausible, because they are cognitive operations of scientific thinking, they need to be founded with reasons. Though some social sciences meanwhile simply present data and consider this as having created a founded theory, creating scientific thought cannot just state what a scientist thinks without any arguments reasoning why he thinks what he thinks. And this is the weak point in this very immune system of social sciences critique against a critique of false thought, because even the immune system of criticism, immune against a critique of false thought, must argue why there is no false and right thought and why the thought that there is no right thought making social science immune against the critique of false thought, is right thought. This is why it is worth trying to critique social sciences thought where they create false theories, though such things like false thought—according to the social sciences theories about social sciences theorizing—do not exist in social science theorizing.