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i_love_FFT@jlai.lu 4 days agoDefinitely not! It just so happened that in my life experience, I was introduced to socio-constructivism just at the same time that alt-right was beginning to be a thing…
When professors were telling us “Einstein proved that Newton was wrong” without understanding that relativity reduces to Newtonian mechanics at low speed… It really failed to get me on board.
dustyData@lemmy.world 4 days ago
You had shitty teachers. That doesn’t mean social-constructivism is wrong. Quite the contrary, it kind of bizarrely proves how social relations alter your perception of reality.
i_love_FFT@jlai.lu 4 days ago
Haha that’s exactly it: perception of reality. It doesn’t change the underlying real world, and so it only affects “truth” if we are forced to redefine it based on what socio-constructivism wants it to be.
It’s just like alt-right debates: just by accepting to play the game, you already lost. It’s a logical paradox, and therefore it can’t be a valid theory.
dustyData@lemmy.world 3 days ago
You’ll be surprise how often paradox is just a proxy term for we don’t fully understand it yet. The point remains, scientists, as subjective human beings we all are, can only approximate natural truth through our own perspectives. Socially constructing knowledge that we deem our truth. Is it game? Yes. Can it be politized by bad faith actors? Absolutely. Best we understand it than try to pledge absolutism as a banner, because that will pe politized too. And there we will lose. Absolutism feeds fascism, nuance and empathy are the enemies of fascists.