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A constitutive model considering post-liquefaction deformation based on the logarithmic skeleton curve

open access: yesRock and Soil Mechanics, 2021
Most of the constitutive model for liquefaction analysis cannot simulate the large post-liquefaction deformation of saturated sand, and there is little research on the nonlinear time-domain large deformation constitutive relationships suitable for ...
DONG Qing   +4 more
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Collective Intentionality, Social Domination, and Reification

open access: yesJournal of Social Ontology, 2017
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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Commanding and Defining. On Eugenio Bulygin’s Theory of Legal Power-Conferring Rules

open access: yesCrítica, 2018
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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Regulative Strategies in Arbitration Law Uncitral Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration (UNCITRAL) compared with Arbitration Law of the People's Republic of China

open access: yesHermes, 2004
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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The Beliefs-Rules-Equilibrium Account of Institutions: A Contribution to a Naturalistic Social Ontology

open access: yesJournal of Social Ontology, 2021
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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On the Logic of Constitutive Rules

open access: yes, 2007
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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Social Ontology: Some Basic Principles

open access: yesPapers, 2006
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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Meta-institutional Concepts: A new Category for Social Ontology

open access: yesRivista di Estetica, 2014
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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Constitutive Rules: The Symbolization Account [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
Our aim is to provide an account of constitutive rules in terms of (1) the acceptance of regulative norms, and (2) a cognitive process we call “symbolization” (in an altogether different sense from what J. R. Searle means by this word).
Celano, Bruno   +3 more
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Reciprocal Illumination: Epistemological Necessity or Ontological Destiny? Some Preliminary Remarks

open access: yesRivista di Estetica, 2014
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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