How Essentialism Properly Understood Might Reconcile Realism and Social Constructivism
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social entities like roles and institutions. What they might have been in illiterate foreign cultures is almost impossible to find out, and even with literate societies it is often difficult, since their signs and languages are social entities themselves and hard to access. Let it suffice with these remarks on social ontology. They are neither systematic nor particularly revealing. Their only point was to briefly indicate how social ontology falls under general ontology in its specific ways. The main point I wanted to make is how even general ontology is socially determined, as social constructivists might have it, though without thereby undermining our natural realistic attitude in any way.
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