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Originally Posted by EnderD_503

Essentialism denies any possibility beyond innateness. Constructivism, despite perhaps being poorly named, does not.

See, I really felt like the Nietzsche/Lacan/Foucault/Butler sequence that has been my life the past month really is saying that that there is nothing at all that is innate.

I felt like it was absolutist. I am willing to take your word for it if it is not, though, as I am not likely to go much deeper into theory after this semester

Originally Posted by EnderD_503

absolute and inherent, are a matter of perception and social construction. People then defer to the belief that, because something is based upon perception or is partially the product of social interaction, that the argument is that these things are "meaningless" or that they do not exist. This is entirely incorrect.

i was totally doing that. I was thinking if something is not innate then it must be a complete illusion