The Construction of Social RealitySimon and Schuster, 11. maí 2010 - 256 síður This short treatise looks at how we construct a social reality from our sense impressions; at how, for example, we construct a ‘five-pound note’ with all that implies in terms of value and social meaning, from the printed piece of paper we see and touch. In The Construction of Social Reality, eminent philosopher John Searle examines the structure of social reality (or those portions of the world that are facts only by human agreement, such as money, marriage, property, and government), and contrasts it to a brute reality that is independent of human agreement. Searle shows that brute reality provides the indisputable foundation for all social reality, and that social reality, while very real, is maintained by nothing more than custom and habit. |
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... notion of the “Background” of nonconscious nonrepresentational capacities and abilities that enable us to cope with the world. In early drafts of the book I devoted an initial chapter to defending realism, the idea that there is a real ...
... notion of the “Background” of nonconscious nonrepresentational capacities and abilities that enable us to cope with the world. In early drafts of the book I devoted an initial chapter to defending realism, the idea that there is a real ...
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... notions I am perforce in a kind of hermeneutic circle. I have to use institutional facts to explain institutional facts; I have to use rules to explain rules, and language to explain language. But the problem is expository and not ...
... notions I am perforce in a kind of hermeneutic circle. I have to use institutional facts to explain institutional facts; I have to use rules to explain rules, and language to explain language. But the problem is expository and not ...
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... notion of “proper function,” though she insists that she is not trying to analyze the ordinary use of the notion of function but to introduce a new technical expression defined in terms of “reproduction” and causation. So construed no ...
... notion of “proper function,” though she insists that she is not trying to analyze the ordinary use of the notion of function but to introduce a new technical expression defined in terms of “reproduction” and causation. So construed no ...
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... notions mark uses to which we put objects, functions that we do not discover, and that do not occur naturally, but that are assigned relative to the practical interests of conscious agents. Not all these interests are “practical” in any ...
... notions mark uses to which we put objects, functions that we do not discover, and that do not occur naturally, but that are assigned relative to the practical interests of conscious agents. Not all these interests are “practical” in any ...
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Creating Institutional Facts | |
Language and Social Reality | |
Iteration | |
Creation | |
Attacks on Realisrn | |
Could There Be | |
Truth and Correspondence | |
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