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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Badumtish: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Faheemdunkers: [qb] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Badumtish: [qb] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Faheemdunkers: [qb] Badumtish, that wasn't the point at all. The point was -- if you use crisp logic, [i]everything[/i] is a social construct, including reality itself and individuals. However as Pinker and others show, the whole premise here is a fallacy. Reality or the world you interact with is not a two-valued system (0, 1) but has multiple values, hence "categorization does not require discreteness" (Sarich & Miele, 2004). If you want to be consistent with your logic, you must also claim individuals, cells and quarks are social constructs, and reality itself. You don't do this though. This is what Pinker criticizes: People only select certain categories, over others, to deny because certain concepts/categories are social taboos. [/qb][/QUOTE]And you still haven't justified why this is the case or how the recognition of individuals is somehow equivalent to the concept of 'race'. [/qb][/QUOTE]This is why: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XO0pcWxcROI Reality is on the same list. Hacking, 1999 - [IMG]http://s23.postimg.org/e0flnwksr/Hacking.jpg[/IMG] Human sensory perceptions are vague and fuzzy(the brain interprets and categorizes non-discretely). Hence if your assumption is categorization requires discreteness you cannot trust your own senses and reality itself is a social construct, alongside everything else. [/qb][/QUOTE]You've reached a new low. Using a sci-fi film to prove your point? Yeah, it is possible that we're all in a Matrix-style world and everything is an illusion, but that is an unassailable point that fails the scientific method. It cannot be proven or disproven. Occam's Razor suggests we are not. Is there any evidence of something breaking the laws of physics? No? Then I have no reason to believe it is possible for a spoon to bend like that. I don't care what the brain does. I've already told you that machines and other non-biological devices are capable of detecting objective differences. Something tells me that there is a lot of equivocation on that list in respect to "social construct". I need confirmation that all the authors are describing the same thing when they use that term. Similarly, 'race' has many different meanings to different people. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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