I think I understand what you are saying, Maria, but there's a profound
difference between the notion of a construction of something that is "out
there" and the notion of a construction which is NOT OF things "out there."
Radical constructivism suggests that our constructions cannot ever be of
something that is "out there." So, in this view there is no "acquiring" of
something that is "out there." Hence no "acquisition" --->a version of
constructivism which CANNOT logically be on the "acquisition" side of the
pair.
The kinds of constructivism which could be on the "acquisition" side are
those whose treatment of thought and knowledge hold only a superficial
difference with realism, hence the adjective "trivial" to describe these
forms of constructivism. This is not to minimize them so much as to place
them with respect to their difference from realism.
Dewey
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"Physical concepts are the free creations of the human mind and
are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external
world."--A. Einstein in The Evolution of Physics with L. Infeld,
1938.
"Every [person's] world picture is and always remains a construct
of [their] mind and cannot be proved to have any other existence."
--E. Schrodinger in Mind and Matter, 1958.
"Don't mistake your watermelon for the universe." --K. Amdahl in
There Are No Electrons, 1991.
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