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1 1. I don’t think it works for mathematical rules, for example, although this was one of Wittgenstein’s intended applications (as developed in his 1956 Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics). In my 2008 monograph Grounding Concepts: An Empirical Basis for Arithmetical Knowledge (Oxford: Oxford University Press) I work from a very different conception of mathematics.

2 2. To call something socially constructed is not to deny its reality or its power. The process of constructing norms for love starts off with a rhyme and a fairy tale, but what we end up with is as real as a law, a church or a government (all of which are also social constructs – real and powerful ones). If love’s rules are more vague and amorphous than those of these other constructs, that only helps love better evade scrutiny and challenge. We can’t fight back against something if we can’t even say what it is.

3 3. See Elizabeth Brake, Minimizing Marriage: Marriage, Morality, and the Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), chapter 4.

4 4. For a recent and thorough scholarly exploration, see Cultural Constructions of Identity: Meta-Ethnology and Theory, ed. Luis Urrieta, Jr., and George W. Noblit (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018).

5 5. He didn’t even invent the word “eudaimonia.” And it might not have meant what he thought it meant. I’ll say more about this later.