Large abstractions are social constructs despite real physical reality existing.

Evidence

No one lives in direct contact either with truth or with reality. Each of us lives in a world actually made by human beings, in which such things as “the nation” or “Christianity” or “Islam” are the result of agreed-upon convention, of historical processes, and, above all, of willed human labor expended to give those things an identity we can recognize. Not that truth and reality do not in fact exist. They do, as we know when we see the trees and the houses in our neighborhoods, or break a bone, or feel the anguish of a loved one’s death. But on the whole, we tend to disregard or minimize the extent to which we depend for our sense of reality not just on the interpretations and meanings we form individually for ourselves but also on those we receive. — Edward W. Said, Covering Islam, 176

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: A dense, paradigm-level statement of social constructionism that carefully avoids the naive ‘nothing is real’ position — worth sitting with.
• XREF: Echoes Berger and Luckmann’s ‘The Social Construction of Reality’ and Benedict Anderson’s imagined communities. — connects to: Dialectical logic cannot be formal because reality itself is concrete. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 532

Related

• Truth about human societies is relative to its producer (similarity 0.80)