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Love of paradoxes

lundi 15 mai 2023 à 12:02

Some people love paradoxes and seek opportunities to claim that they are the whole of reality. For instance, it turns out that color perception is partially socially constructed. One writer leaps from that to the claim that color perceptions are arbitrary mental constructs which have nothing to do with reality.

Plenty of aspects of human perception, thought, and behavior are partially socially constructed, but that doesn't mean they are arbitrary or that they are not constrained by reality.