After social constructivism permeated the humanities deeply enough to turn most journalists into postmodernists, they turned their focus from understanding social reality to constructing it. Journalism is no longer: X happened, but: here is how you should relate to X
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There's the thing: If enough people simultaneously presuppose X to be real (or can be induced into such), X becomes "real", conjured via the relation of belief itself
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If the "consensus theory of truth" is false, then on what grounds does one derive the nature of truth from academic consensus?
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To be clear, I'm aware that objectivities are not contingent merely on human belief, but it's also impossible to relate to them absent signifiers & constructs, which are mutable & contingent
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You can make your agency fully conditional on the truth of the constructs you use to justify your actions, as long as you can deal with the resource requirements to represent the rest of the distribution.
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I don't think that agency is intrinsically social (but it is intrinsically intentional, for a sufficient definition of intentionality). If behavior is conditioned on reflexes, the agency of the system is constrained by reflexes. (The elicitations of moral emotions are reflexes.)
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Does that mean that at the exact moment where the last human being leaves your neighborhood, your capacity for conscious agency is suddenly reduced to zero?
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