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By centralizing social constructivist ideas of gender from radical feminism and queer Theory, biological explanations for why, on average, men and women make different life choices, display different degrees of psychological traits, have different interests, or exhibit different sexual behaviors cannot be included within intersectional feminist ana

One problem with taking on a physical or mental disability as an identity is that it disincentivizes any possible mitigation of the disability. This might, for example, lead people to problematize or refuse technology that allows deaf people to hear, because they can no longer identify as deaf afterwards.

Liberal science, to Rauch, is a system that applies two consistent rules: the “skeptical rule” and the “empirical rule.”17 These he summarizes as “no one gets the final say” and “no one has personal authority,”18 respectively, arguing that “these peculiar rules are two of the most successful social conventions the human species has ever evolved.”19

postmodernism rests upon a broad rejection of the correspondence theory of truth: that is, the position that there are objective truths and that they can be established as true by their correspondence with how things actually are in the world.