<html> <body> <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite> What "ongoing social interactions" "produce 'build'" the belief that every belief is "socially constructed"? </blockquote> Oh come on.  Unless your a freshman philosophy student it must have occurred to you that people can go right on living, and living well, in the midst of this unavoidable human self-reflexivity. What produces it is the same on-going social interactions that produce any shared belief or piece of culture-- in this case the social interaction that occurs among people who have too much time on their hands.  The Sophists learned to live with the inherent reflexivity of all human truth claims.  They didn't explode from doing so.  I'd rather live with people like them--humans who don't take humans, particularly themselves-- all that seriously. <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>So, if the belief that every belief is "socially constructed" must itself be said to be socially constructed (as seems to be implied by your claim that "peoples's interactions produce 'build' _every_ aspect of our social world"), how can you consistently claim that the belief that every belief is "socially constructed" is true?</blockquote> It's a reasonable working hypothesis given the evidence at hand... as is anything human beings have ever or will ever say.  Time we got used to it, yes?  Cliff </body> </html>