RE: Social construct.
December 21, 2022 at 2:38 pm
(This post was last modified: December 21, 2022 at 2:49 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
The pieces of paper exist just as churches exist. The value of the money is not, however, based on any objective reality of those pieces of paper. If we all stopped agreeing that they were valuable, the paper would still exist - but would not be money..as so many other discontinued currencies. If we stopped calling mountains mountains...and in fact we have many words for mountains, they would remain precisely what they were when we did call them mountains, just as pluto remains precisely what it was no matter what we call it. Same with a cat or a dog or a douglas fir.
Again, language...all the different words we use to describe things, is a good example of a social construct. Nothing other than our limited agreement as speakers of english, and nothing about a cat, makes a cat a cat instead of a zzzzzrpt. The word is not the thing, and the things themselves are, more often than not, good examples of things which aren't. Mountains are not social constructs. Pluto is not a social construct. Pets are not social constructs. Trees are not social constructs. These things do not come into existence purely because we agree, and they will not blip out of existence if that agreement stopped.
This argument is absurd, in it's entirety. You're aware of the definition of a social construct. It's not particularly difficult to understand, and it's not difficult to come up with examples of things that are and are not social constructs. Unless this goes somewhere..and it would be aaaamazing to hear wherever that place was supposed to be, I can't even imagine why someone would launch themselves into it?
Again, language...all the different words we use to describe things, is a good example of a social construct. Nothing other than our limited agreement as speakers of english, and nothing about a cat, makes a cat a cat instead of a zzzzzrpt. The word is not the thing, and the things themselves are, more often than not, good examples of things which aren't. Mountains are not social constructs. Pluto is not a social construct. Pets are not social constructs. Trees are not social constructs. These things do not come into existence purely because we agree, and they will not blip out of existence if that agreement stopped.
This argument is absurd, in it's entirety. You're aware of the definition of a social construct. It's not particularly difficult to understand, and it's not difficult to come up with examples of things that are and are not social constructs. Unless this goes somewhere..and it would be aaaamazing to hear wherever that place was supposed to be, I can't even imagine why someone would launch themselves into it?
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