This article addresses Simon Lohse’s and Daniel Little’s responses to my article “Is Social Ontology Prior to Social Scientific Methodology?.” In that article, I present a pragmatic and deflationary view of the priority of social ontology to social science methodology where social ontology is valued for its ability to promote empirical success and not because it yields knowledge of what furnishes the social world. First, in response to Lohse, I argue that my view is compatible with a role for ontological theorizing in the social sciences. However, the view that results instrumentalizes social ontology. Second, in my response to Little, I argue that the same considerations I made in my article apply to naturalistic attempts to motivate a non-deflationary view, repeating some of the central issues of that article.

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工具化和自然化的社会本体论：对Lohse和Little的答复

本文介绍了西蒙·洛斯（Simon Lohse）和丹尼尔·利特尔（Daniel Little）对我的文章“社会本体论先于社会科学方法论吗？”的答复。在那篇文章中，我对社会本体论优先于社会科学方法论提出了实用和通缩的观点，其中社会本体论因其促进经验成功的能力而受到重视，而不是因为它产生了构成社会世界的知识。首先，作为对洛斯的回应，我认为我的观点与社会科学中本体论理论的作用是一致的。但是，结果视图有助于社会本体论。其次，在回应利特尔时，我认为我在文章中所做的相同考虑也适用于自然主义的尝试，以激发非通缩的观点，并重复了该文章的一些核心问题。