RE: Social construct.
December 21, 2022 at 1:21 pm
(This post was last modified: December 21, 2022 at 1:24 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Human choice may be a social construct , even if our ability to make selections is a fact - though some people would probably call that a semantic rounding error. Language, the words we use to refer to things, are a social construct, yes. The word is not the thing, however. Everyone changing their minds about what word to use to refer to a mountain does not change the mountain, anymore than the different words for mountain in many languages change the mountain. Pluto, as you note, being called a planet or not a planet, doesn't change pluto. This is because pluto..like a mountain... is not a social construct.
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