First Things RSS Feed - Edward Pols https://www.firstthings.com/author/edward-pols en-us Copyright 2025 First Things. All Rights Reserved. ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:55:42 -0500 https://d2201k5v4hmrsv.cloudfront.net/img/favicon-196.png First Things RSS Feed Image https://www.firstthings.com/rss/author/edward-pols 60 The Social Construction of What? https://www.firstthings.com/article/2000/05/the-social-construction-of-what https://www.firstthings.com/article/2000/05/the-social-construction-of-what Mon, 01 May 2000 00:00:00 -0400 If you suppose that you know something towards which your attention is directed”another human being, your cat, a tree, the kitchen table”you also suppose that what you know has a reality independent of your act of knowing. That act (so you think) attains its target: it does not make, produce, or construct something different from the target, some creation that hides the real thing.

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