I don’t understand how so many people seem to understand the concept just fine. It sounds oddly complicated to me. The concept to me sounds like collectively concluded delusion or like if society collectively concludes something to be objectively real, that means it’s objectively real. Maybe I’m not understanding correctly?
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It’s the idea that things have meanings because society gives them that meaning. It has nothing to do about it being physical or not.
For instance, can you differentiate a table from a stool? Of course you can, but how? By all accounts, they’re essentially the same thing – four legs and a flat top. You can even put stuff on top of the stool while sitting on the table. However, you know to sit on the stool and to eat on the table. How? Because society taught you how to differentiate between the two even if, physically speaking, they’re the exact same.
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