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How do people who believe science is a social construct explain why you die when you jump off a tall building?
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October 10, 2005

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Peter Lipton
October 10, 2005 (changed October 10, 2005) Permalink

People who believe that science is a social construct do not deny that there is a world independent of ourselves, with real causes and real effects. What they emphasise is something consistent with this, namely that the theories that scientists invent to account for the world are strongly influenced by social context.

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