Language is a social construct, do we disregard anything based on that? Then we have the absolute gem. Science (as a disciplin) is a social construct. Should we disregard anything based on that? Oh, hang on, you've said that science is important. But then you said that we shouldn't use social constructs to explain material things... isn't this a paradox?
If you disagree, explain to me how science is not a social construct.
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Originally Posted by I believe it's [philosophy] best served explaining how our consciousness, individually or collectively, invents or alters or destroys societal institutions of all shape and manner.<hr size="1" /></blockquote><span class='postcolor'>What you've just described is sociology, not philosophy. If that's all you think philosophy is, then we have very, very little that we can talk about.
I never had you pegged as a hard-core reductionist, but nevermind that.