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The Production of Institutional Facts in Economic Discourse
World Political Science, 2013AbstractEconomic discourses are dominated by stylized facts and other statements of fact concerning the institutional economic order. Yet, there is still very little knowledge on how exactly facts are formed in economic discourse, how they serve as a means for rendering issues “economic”, and how they legitimize, renew and change institutions.
Teppo Eskelinen, Ville-Pekka Sorsa
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Institutional facts, performativity and false beliefs
Cognitive Systems Research, 2006Recent accounts of institutional and social facts share at least three theses. (1) Performativity: a shared attitude of certain type towards an institutional fact may contribute to the truth of a sentence describing the fact. (2) Reflexivity: if a sentence describing an institutional fact is true, the relevant attitude is present. (3) Qualified realism:
Eerik Lagerspetz
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From Brute Facts to Institutional Facts in Multiagent-Systems
2011 Workshop and School of Agent Systems, their Environment and Applications, 2011Some multi-agent models point to the use of a institutional dimension to ensure a suitable behavior of the agents and to aid the agents in their activities in the system. In some scenarios, the interaction between agents and institution may be mediated by the environment.
Jomi Fred Hübner, Maiquel DE BRITO
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Psychoanalytic Facts as Unintended Institutional Facts
Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 2011We present an inference to the best explanation of the immense cultural success of Freudian psychoanalysis as a hermeneutic method. We argue that an account of psychoanalytic facts as products of unintended declarative speech acts explains this phenomenon.
Buekens, F.A.I., Boudry, M.
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Privacy: an institutional fact
Ethics and Information Technology, 2016Let us show how property is grasped as an institutional fact. If Jones steals a computer, he does not own it in the sense of property, but only exercises control towards it. If he buys the computer, he controls it too, and moreover owns it in the sense of property. In other words, simply exercising control towards something is a brute fact.
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Institutional Facts and the Naturalistic Fallacy
ProtoSociology, 2002In 1964 Searle argued against the naturalistic fallacy thesis that an ought-statement can in fact be derived from is-statements. From an analysis of this argument and of Searle’s social ontology of 1995 – which includes a full-blown theory of institutional facts – I conclude that this argument is unsound on his own (later) terms.
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2020
The use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes is entirely every country’s sovereign choice. Today, 31 countries own and operate 449 Nuclear Power Reactors (NPRs) (see Annex III) covering around 11% of the world’s electric consumption. In 11 countries NPRs cover more than 30% of their needs in electricity.
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The use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes is entirely every country’s sovereign choice. Today, 31 countries own and operate 449 Nuclear Power Reactors (NPRs) (see Annex III) covering around 11% of the world’s electric consumption. In 11 countries NPRs cover more than 30% of their needs in electricity.
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Further thoughts on institutional facts
International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, 1992exaly +2 more sources