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Money is a social construct. It only has value because people collectively treat it that way. But you can still be objectively wrong about how much money you have in your bank account, or what the exchange rate is today. Laws are constructed, but you can be objectively wrong about what the law says. Citizenship, marriage, and borders are all constructed, but they all support true and false claims within the system they define. Social construction means the category exists because of human agreement, convention, and practice. It’s not a mind independent natural kind like “electron.” It doesn’t mean the category is completely arbitrary, or that anything goes, or that individual opinions are immune from being right or wrong. Once a social construct or practice exists, it starts generating its own facts. Facts about how it works, what the term historically means, how it can be used, and what its internal criteria are. I hope you learned something.
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