PHIL 2060 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Van Stephenson, Postmodern Architecture, Social Fact
10 Apr 2018
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Maybe natural is more complicated then we think. It doesn"t mean natural is bad or natural is good, beer is natural, indoor plumping is not natural, cancer is natural. A social constructive says something may be based on a preexisting reality (preexisting human consciousness) separate from human consciousness. Something"s are easily changed and others are not. The social world of family"s language and ritual. There is an answer to the question if a tree falls in the forest, waves in the air will produce sound. There is a reality before people existed that we don"t know about. The boundaries between the categories are social and not given in nature. Categories are boundaries and are social and not only natural. Whales used to be fish and now they are mammals. You can describe fish as things like swim and birds as things that fly.
