The Social Construction of Perceptual Categories

In this article I shall argue that the categories a subject employs to codify her perceptions are emergent elements of the social niche her community inhabits. Hence, I defend the claim that categories are primarily elements of the social ontology a certain subject experiences. I then claim that pub...

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Main Author: Consiglio Francesco
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Vienna 2021-11-01
Series:Journal of Social Ontology
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/jso-2020-0058