Larry, you're overly hung-up on this baloney.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reification_(fallacy)#Use_of_constructs_in_science
"The concept of a "construct" has a long history in science; it is used in many,
if not most, areas of science."
"The degree to which a construct is useful and accepted as part of the current paradigm in a scientific community depends on empirical research that has demonstrated that a scientific construct has construct validity (especially, predictive validity)."
"if properly understood and empirically corroborated, the "reification fallacy" applied to scientific constructs is not a fallacy at all; it is one part of theory creation and evaluation in 'Normal science'."
The fact is, you have NOTHING but models of reality. Your mind builds models of
the real world ad infinitum. You can't name even one thing that's authentic because all you have are thoughts in your head. Some of them seem to be in good
agreement with what's out there ... and some of them aren't. In your case, MANY
of them aren't.
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