Full Idea
For those who regard the world as text or a social construct, are texts and social constructs real entities? If they are, what are they?
Gist of Idea
If the world is just texts or social constructs, what are texts and social constructs?
Source
John Heil (From an Ontological Point of View [2003], 20.6)
Book Reference
Heil,John: 'From an Ontological Point of View' [OUP 2005], p.249
A Reaction
A nice turn-the-tables question. The oldest attacks of all on scepticism and relativism consist of showing that the positions themselves rest on knowledge or truth. Nietzsche may be the best model for relativists. E.g. Idea 4420.
Related Idea
Idea 4420 There is only 'perspective' seeing and knowing, and so the best objectivity is multiple points of view [Nietzsche]