Ep. 227: What Is Social Construction? (Hacking, Berger) (Part Two)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Pragmatist Argument for Quarks
Is there a meaningful sense in which, if our scientific construct was somewhat different? And we structured the world scientifically for the purposes of the way we use science. Do we believe that quarks would still be out there? Or would the fact that they'd never been conceived, never been measured, never been recorded,. and the taxonomy of things that are in the world was already set out by the system that we had in place?"
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