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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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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This is where we are talking about different things then. I know what epistemology is - ways of discovering knowledge. I am referring to knowledge as the thing that is to be discovered whilst you are referring to the process of knowing.
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Well if you refer to knowledge as the thing that is discovered you're in trouble. It's what I'd call the epistemic fallacy; the reduction of what is (ontology) to what is known (epistemology). What is taken as known at any point in time can always be wrong.
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Yes, knowledge is always provisional. And there is always more to know. This is dealt with by openly acknowledging that we are limited in getting at truth.
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Exactly, so we can't ever say that our socially constructed knowledge of the world is 100% right. And what makes it possibly wrong is that it's not identical to what is. What there is would still be as it even if we had no knowledge of it. That's why knowledge isn't what is.
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