If you mean simply that humans put it together, yes. Humans gathered together the information to construct a strong case for the earth orbiting the sun. The fact that it does is not a construct of humans tho. It did that long before we existed.https://twitter.com/colwight/status/970609479807987712 …
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But even the knowledge itself is socially constructed. If there were no humans they'd be no knowledge.
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In the sense that there wouldn't be anyone to know it, yes. There'd be no knowers. , no possessors of knowledge. This is a semantic thing. When we say we seek knowledge, it is not humans knowing things that we seek but the right answer to a thing.
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The knowledge itself - the right answer to a thing eg, water is H2O - is not socially constructed. Nor is the knower - an intelligent ape. The process of obtaining this knowledge and framing of it is dependent on society & the methods it formulates for knowing & relating this.
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This is what is at the crux of the disagreement. We all agree that the acquisition of knowledge is dependent on developments of human methods like science in society. We disagree on whether there is objective knowledge/truth/facts and whether we can get at them at all reliably.
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No you see this is what leaves you right open to a postmodernist critique. You have to distinguish knowledge (a human product) from the world (which may be a human product (society)). But knowledge of the world is socially constructed. This means any knowledge claim could...1/
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.....be wrong. You have to distinguish how we know things, from what things there are. But we can only know what things there are through our descriptions of them.
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Absolutely. I don't disagree with that. Distinguishing how we know things from what things there are is absolutely the point. Knowledge is the product tho, not the epistemology, surely?
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Knowledge and epistemology are by definition one and the same thing. I'll send you some readings.
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