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   * The “house” as an entity exists only in relation to the builder and the act of building; when the interaction ceases and the activity of building ends, it reverts to being “just cards.”   * The “house” as an entity exists only in relation to the builder and the act of building; when the interaction ceases and the activity of building ends, it reverts to being “just cards.”
   * We need a **relational ontology** to understand this, one that is neither nominalist nor essentialist. In this relationalist view, the only real, objective things are **networks, systems, and relationships**, rather than essences or names. Entities like people, things, or houses are outcomes of networks of relations.   * We need a **relational ontology** to understand this, one that is neither nominalist nor essentialist. In this relationalist view, the only real, objective things are **networks, systems, and relationships**, rather than essences or names. Entities like people, things, or houses are outcomes of networks of relations.
-  * For better or worse, chickens, salmon, //Brassica// species, and the freakish {{:xl-apple.jpg?linkonly|USU Footbridge General store apples}} have no existence outside of their connections to humans and technology.+  * For better or worse, chickens, salmon, //Brassica// species, and the freakish {{:xl-apple.jpg?linkonly|USU Footbridge General Store apples}} have no existence outside of their connections to humans and technology.
  
 ===== Humans in the state of nature–culture “quench [their] thirst at the first [faucet]” ===== ===== Humans in the state of nature–culture “quench [their] thirst at the first [faucet]” =====
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