"Corporations are organisms, not city-states; they signal to each other via markets; they build interfaces into human social protocols through brand identities; they occupy slots in our Dunbar rings."https://zerohplovecraft.wordpress.com/2018/05/11/the-gig-economy-2/ …
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Ah, like clockwork, the inevitable citation of Harari, one of the chief propagators of this error. His thinking on this topic is very shallow.
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For what its worth, I understand perfectly well Harari's point about the role of language in coordinating inter-subjective belief and action. None of that implies that social constructs are "not real."
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Can you provide anything details other than “serious error” and “very shallow”? Social constructivism is an intellectual virus. Just because a certain number of people say something exists, does not mean that it exists in reality. It is an epistemological bait and switch.
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Look above in the thread. I already gave you a citation to a serious treatment of the topic.
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Also, this is not "social constructivism," which is the quite different notion that reality as a whole is socially constructed. I'm saying no such thing. The only things I'm claiming are socially constructed are obvious social constructs, of the sort that Harari also discusses.
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My disagreement with Harari centers on his restriction of the real to material things and his consequent claim that social constructs are therefore not real.
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