“Radical constructivism, thus, is radical because it breaks with convention and develops a theory of knowledge in which knowledge does not reflect an 'objective' ontological reality.”
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It is difficult to imagine how any behavior in the presence of another person can avoid being a communication of one's own view of the nature of one's relationship with that person and how it can fail to influence that person.
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is 'The Book of British Birds, ' and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology.
One can decide that the principal role of knowledge is as an indispensable element in the functioning of society, and act in accordance with that decision, only if one has already decided that society is a giant machine.