RE: Social construct.
December 20, 2022 at 2:57 pm
(This post was last modified: December 20, 2022 at 3:09 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
There are morphological, behavioral, and genetic differences between wild corn and domesticated corn. Not a social construct.
There is no difference between a vidalia onion, and any other yellow granex onion, there is a federal marketing order protecting the trademark and brand name. A social construct.
That some native american tribes refered to horses as big dogs is a social construct (as are the contents of every language), though no amount of calling a horse a dog makes it a dog, as there is an objective difference between the two. So there we have a social construct employed on top of a biological reality which begs to differ. Religions are very often social constructs - not the shamans or the buildings, but the ideologies themselves. Are we ever going to get to the moneyshot? To the point of pretending that this is difficult to understand and/or that everything is a social construct - or that social constructs themselves reduce to biology (or chemistry, or physics)....? The last one is particularly onerous, as social constructs are literally defined as categorizations or concepts which -do not- have their basis in any objective reality, such as biology, chemistry, or physics. We're in "what is word?" territory...here.....
There is no difference between a vidalia onion, and any other yellow granex onion, there is a federal marketing order protecting the trademark and brand name. A social construct.
That some native american tribes refered to horses as big dogs is a social construct (as are the contents of every language), though no amount of calling a horse a dog makes it a dog, as there is an objective difference between the two. So there we have a social construct employed on top of a biological reality which begs to differ. Religions are very often social constructs - not the shamans or the buildings, but the ideologies themselves. Are we ever going to get to the moneyshot? To the point of pretending that this is difficult to understand and/or that everything is a social construct - or that social constructs themselves reduce to biology (or chemistry, or physics)....? The last one is particularly onerous, as social constructs are literally defined as categorizations or concepts which -do not- have their basis in any objective reality, such as biology, chemistry, or physics. We're in "what is word?" territory...here.....
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