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Ep. 227: What Is Social Construction? (Hacking, Berger) (Part Two)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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The Metaphysical and the Social Constructionists

If you're a social constructionist, you maintain that the world does not come quietly wrapped up in facts. It's a species of nominalism. The disagreement is metaphysical. He draws a distinction at a certain point between some of the different things and Mellon does this too that we might construct.

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