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Commanding and Defining. On Eugenio Bulygin’s Theory of Legal Power-Conferring Rules
This paper aims to explore two objections raised against Bulygin’s second approach to the definition of the nature of legal power-conferring rules. According to the first objection, such an account is vague about what is defined by legal powerconferring
Gonzalo Villa Rosas
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This paper is concerned with the laying down of the law in international and domestic arbitration. Interest centres on regulative and constitutive functions, and an analysis of realisation patterns of regulative (directive) acts is reported.
Anna Trosborg
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On the Logic of Constitutive Rules
The paper proposes a logical systematization of the notion of counts-as which is grounded on a very simple intuition about what counts-as statements actually mean, i.e., forms of classification. Moving from this analytical thesis the paper disentangles three semantically different readings of statements of the type X counts as Y in context C, from the ...
Grossi, Davide +2 more
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Collective Intentionality, Social Domination, and Reification
This paper addresses the way that social power and domination can be understood in terms of collective intentionality. I argue that the essence of stable forms of rational power and domination must be understood as the functional influence of material ...
Thompson Michael J.
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Reciprocal Illumination: Epistemological Necessity or Ontological Destiny? Some Preliminary Remarks
This paper explores two different but intimately linked concepts. First, there is “reciprocal illumination”, or the relation of interdependence of the object of knowledge and its subject. Second is the “irreversibility” which characterizes the process of
Jovan Babić
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Social Ontology: Some Basic Principles
The aim of this article is to explore the problem of social ontology, by developing the argument presented in The Construction of Social Reality (1995).
John R. Searle
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This paper pursues a naturalist endeavor in social ontology by arguing that the Beliefs-Rules-Equilibrium account of institutions can help to advance the debate over the nature of social kinds.
Hédoin Cyril
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Meta-institutional Concepts: A new Category for Social Ontology
In Speech Acts, John Searle argues that institutional facts presuppose, for their existence, the existence of certain institutions (understood as systems of constitutive rules). In this paper I extend Searle’s theory of institutional facts arguing that a
Giuseppe Lorini
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ABSTRACT Introduction The use of herbal medical preparation (HMP) is rising among pediatric oncology patients, often to manage treatment‐related symptoms. Their effectiveness remains uncertain, and the risk of herb–drug interactions is underestimated.
Orianne Mahot +6 more
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Aristotle's Topics capturesthe adventure of arguing. It may be distinguished in them morphologic-constitutive rules that stablish the elements of discussion, on one hand, and morphologic-regulative rules that suggest how must they work, on the other hand.
Carlos Pereda F.
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