 There is no special problem posed by the claim that human social and linguistic activities cause certain things to exist or persist, or cause certain facts to be. More obscure is the idea that X’s construction of Y is some sort of constitutive relationship. Many constructionist claims seem to involve the idea that the world is itself “made up” by social and cultural activities in ways that suggest our socio-linguistic behaviors are at least necessary to the object in question. This suggests a relationship such as: