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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... sense there are things that exist only because we believe them to exist. I am thinking of things like money, property, governments, and marriages. Yet many facts regarding these things are “objective” facts in the sense that they are ...
... sense there are things that exist only because we believe them to exist. I am thinking of things like money, property, governments, and marriages. Yet many facts regarding these things are “objective” facts in the sense that they are ...
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... senses. For our present discussion two senses are crucial, an epistemic sense of the objective-subjective distinction and an ontological sense. Epistemically speaking, “objective” and “subjective” are primarily predicates of judgments ...
... senses. For our present discussion two senses are crucial, an epistemic sense of the objective-subjective distinction and an ontological sense. Epistemically speaking, “objective” and “subjective” are primarily predicates of judgments ...
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... sense that it is made true by the existence of an actual fact that is not dependent on any stance, attitudes, or opinions of observers. However, the phenomenon itself, the actual pain, has a subjective mode of existence. The Distinction ...
... sense that it is made true by the existence of an actual fact that is not dependent on any stance, attitudes, or opinions of observers. However, the phenomenon itself, the actual pain, has a subjective mode of existence. The Distinction ...
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... sense that they do not depend on any attitudes of observers or users. For example, it has a certain mass and a certain chemical composition. 3. It has other features that exist only relative to the intentionality of agents. For example ...
... sense that they do not depend on any attitudes of observers or users. For example, it has a certain mass and a certain chemical composition. 3. It has other features that exist only relative to the intentionality of agents. For example ...
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... sense, because such functions are also assigned when we say “That is an ugly painting.” Because all these are instance of uses to which agents intentionally put objects, I will call them “agentive functions.” Some of the objects to which.
... sense, because such functions are also assigned when we say “That is an ugly painting.” Because all these are instance of uses to which agents intentionally put objects, I will call them “agentive functions.” Some of the objects to which.
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Creating Institutional Facts | |
Language and Social Reality | |
Iteration | |
Creation | |
Attacks on Realisrn | |
Could There Be | |
Truth and Correspondence | |
Conclusion | |
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