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A broader framework extending constructionism to reason itself: the norms, practices, and standards of rationality are built by communities, transmitted through education, and embedded in institutions. There is no trans‑historical, universal Reason; there are reasoned practices, each with its own history and context. The theory does not lead to relativism (some practices are better for certain purposes) but insists that what counts as “good reasoning” is contingent, revisable, and always the achievement of specific social and material conditions. It challenges the idea that reason is simply “given” to the individual mind.
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