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Subject: HES -- QUERY: Menger and "compositive" method 
 
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Hayek - as he mentions it in his article "Scientism and the Study of 
Society" (1942. p. 287. footnote 2) - borrowed the term "compositive" 
from Menger. Menger used the term in a manuscript note in his personal 
annotated copy of Schmoller's review of Menger's "Methoden der 
Socialwissenschaften". Here Menger wrote the word "compositive" above  
the term "deductive" used by Schmoller - informs Hayek. 
Can anyone tell me what the German term is  
Menger uses in that manuscript note? 
 
Best wishes, 
 
Agnes Miklos Illes 
 
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