Categories of humans based on shared traits or clusters of shared traits

Human Kinds

Characteristics that are considered to be known about the way humans are (act, look, feel, etc.).

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-  representations (e.g. ideas, theories, taxonomies)
- general non-representational facts 
- non-representational facts about human traits.


Types of Social Constructs

Facts are pieces of information that are known to be true.

Facts

Mallon, R. (2019, January 11). Naturalistic Approaches to Social Construction. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2019/entries/social-construction-naturalistic/

Naturalistic Approaches to Social Construction

Representations express concepts or propositions, such as theories or taxonomies. The creation of a representation must not be mistaken for the creation of a fact. For example, when gravitational theory (a representation) was created, gravity itself (a fact) was not newly created.

Representations

Things that are considered to be known directly, as opposed to being known through theories. Examples of socially constructed facts include facts about being a US President and facts about being an Emotional Support Animal. 

General (Non-representational) Facts

(Non-representational) Facts about Human Traits.

The process of determining the accuracy of information. Often performed and published by professional fact checkers such as Politifact or Snopes.

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