constructionism

plural constructionisms

1. countableuncountablelawA strict interpretation of the actual words and phrases used in law, rather than any underlying intent.
2. countableuncountablehuman sciencesThe idea that people learn about, or perceive the world by constructing mental models.

   The futility of dismissing social constructionism in favor of some "real," authentic nature outside the social and linguistic.

   2018, Nicole Seymour, Bad Environmentalism, page 134

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   But is it one constructionism in many guises, or a variety of quite different constructionisms, or merely old issues dressed up in new jargon,

   1997, Derek Edwards, Discourse and Cognition, page 51