We don't as far as I can tell! It is a semantic issue. I'd really rather not conflate social constructivism (currently understood as making shit up) with accepting the imperfect and provisional nature of knowledge because the former is the problem and the latter the solution.
I absolutely don't reject the idea that knowledge is provisional and that knowledge is obtained through methods invented by humans and conveyed through language. I just don't call that 'social constructivism.' That's not what is meant in the conversations I'm having.
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Must say I'm very positively impressed to read such a long argument without anyone going nuts and claiming the other part is annoying. Very interesting topic as well.
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Knowledge is not a social construct, nor is it synonymous with epistemology. Knowledge is actually the one thing on which the vast majority of, if not all, philosophers actually agree. What is knowledge? The answer is "justified true belief." The disagreements then begin.
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There are four main schools of thought in epistemology. And their disagreements are over answers to the questions what is truth, and what is justification for belief. What knowledge is has a consensus in the field of epistemology. What truth is and what justifies belief are still
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far from decided. Is justification through ratiocination? Sense perception, by which is meant observation and experimentation? A little of both? Neither? What is truth? That which coheres with reality and is self-consistent? That which corresponds to reality? That which can be
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verified (and if so, then how is it verified?)? Absolutely nothing and therefore impossible? These questions are the topics of disagreements in epistemology, not what knowledge is. We are fairly "certain" what knowledge is.
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Forgive the thread-bomb, but have either of you read "The Vacuity of Postmodernist Methodology"? It goes a long way in explaining the disagreement you are having. https://philpapers.org/archive/SHATVO-2.pdf …
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