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by kelseyfrog 1178 days ago
It's funny arguing with someone who has reified the concept so thoroughly that dereification is unthinkable.

First off I'm setting aside the argument that intelligence is constructed or not. Ssecondly, social ontologists would say that you're arguing from grounding.

You're arguing that because one thing is grounded in the other and the latter is real that the former is real as well. It also sounds like this is taken as axiomatic, to which I simply say, prove that's how grounding works.

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Are you willing to argue that height and weight are "social constructs" because IQ is as much a social construct as they are.