No it's not James, it's not just a semantic issue, it's a real issue that has practical consequences. Introducing distinctions isn't just a philosophical parlour game. Otherwise we could say the diff between a conservative and a Nazi is just semantic.
This is not the same. Social constructivism can and does have different meanings. How can we deal with the madness if we don't use words being used for it? Just discussed the Damore memo which used 'social constructivism' 4 times and we addressed what was meant by that.
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If we had insisted on acting as tho Damore was criticising what you call social constructivism, we could never have discussed what he actually was criticising - blank slatism. The conversation would have failed. The problem of enforcing blank slatism could not have been addressed
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I think you just have to accept that a term you use one way philosophically is used another way politically even if you really think it shouldn't be because that is the reality. The difference is semantic. We don't disagree with you about anything substantial.
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