Construzled 

To be conflubered, confloberated, confuzzled, and conjombleated. A mixture of confused emotions.

She was construzled when her fiance left her standing at the alter.

Construzled by conflubberated December 4, 2011

construed 

To make up or explain an action

Being gay is just not construable.

construed by rakim shabazz May 8, 2003

Constructed Reality Theory

A framework asserting that what we take as reality is a construct—a product of human practices, language, and social agreements. This doesn’t mean reality is “fake” but that our access to it and its meaning are always mediated by construction. The theory encompasses social constructionism, symbolic interactionism, and phenomenological constructionism. It explains why different communities can have different “realities” while still living in the same physical world: they’ve constructed different meaning systems, institutions, and ways of engaging.

Example: “Constructed reality theory explains why the same piece of land is a sacred site to one group, a resource to another, and a legal territory to a third—all real, all constructed.”

Constructed Reality Theory by Dumu The Void March 23, 2026

Constructed Objectivity Theory

A sub-theory of constructionism focused specifically on objectivity claims. It argues that objectivity is not a property of things themselves but a label applied to knowledge claims that have been validated through certain social processes (peer review, expert consensus, standardized measurement). The theory shows that objectivity is constructed by communities of practitioners through shared methods, language, and institutions—it is a social achievement, not a given. Understanding how objectivity is constructed helps reveal why it can fail, how it can be biased, and how it can be improved.

Example: “Constructed objectivity theory explains why a drug trial’s results are called ‘objective’ only after passing through a network of protocols, reviewers, and regulatory processes—objectivity is made, not found.”

Constructed Objectivity Theory by Dumu The Void March 23, 2026

Theory of Constructed Technologies

The perspective that technologies are not neutral tools with inevitable effects. They are built by people with specific values, assumptions, and worldviews embedded in their design. A social media algorithm isn't just code; it's a constructed technology that embodies theories about human attention, social interaction, and value (e.g., engagement = profit). These embedded constructions then shape user behavior, often reinforcing the very worldviews used to build them.

Example: "The dating app's 'matching algorithm' wasn't magic; it was a Theory of Constructed Technology in action. It was built on a model of human attraction as a checklist of preferences, which then taught users to see themselves and others as checklists. The technology didn't just find love; it constructed a new way of looking for it." Theory of Constructed Technologies

Theory of Constructed Technologies by Dumu The Void January 30, 2026

Theory of Constructed Evidence

The recognition that evidence is never neutral; it is always interpreted through a lens. A strand of hair is just a biological filament until a detective's theory of the crime constructs it as "evidence of the suspect's presence." A statistical correlation is just a number until an economist's model constructs it as "evidence for market manipulation." The theory comes first and dictates what counts as evidence and what that evidence means.

Example: "In the conspiracy forum, the same government press release was constructed as 'evidence of a cover-up' (because they'd admit that if it were true?) and as 'evidence of their brazen transparency' (to throw us off!). The Theory of Constructed Evidence shows the evidence itself was passive; the opposing theories did all the work."

Theory of Constructed Evidence by Dumu The Void January 30, 2026

Theory of Constructed Facts

The idea that even raw facts are not simply discovered, but are shaped by the theories, tools, and questions that produce them. A fact is a carefully carved slice of reality, and the carving tools are our interests, technologies, and linguistic categories. The fact "the patient has a fever of 102°F" is constructed by the concept of "fever," the Fahrenheit scale, and the reliability of the thermometer. Change any of those, and you get a different fact. Facts are theory-laden.

Example: "The archaeologist explained the Theory of Constructed Facts: 'We say we 'found' a ceremonial dagger. But that fact was constructed the moment we decided to call it a 'dagger' and not 'scrap metal,' and 'ceremonial' instead of 'utilitarian.' The dirt gave us an object; we gave it a story that became a fact in our textbook.'"

Theory of Constructed Facts by Dumu The Void January 30, 2026