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John Searle on Institutional Facts
Metaphysics, 2010 One general categorization by some of the contemporary analytic philosophers divides the facts into institutional and brute. The characteristic of institutional facts is that they are constituted by collective recognition.
m Abdullahi, M Janmohammadi
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Legal Facts and Dependence on Representations
Journal of Social Ontology, 2016 Barry Smith has recently argued against John Searle’s thesis that institutional facts exist because they are represented as existing in a certain community.
Almäng Jan
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Contested Institutional Facts [PDF]
Erkenntnis, 2018 A significant part of contemporary social ontology has been focused on understanding forms of collective intentionality. It is suggested in this paper that the contested nature of some institutional matters makes this kind of approach problematic, and instead an alternative approach is developed, one that is oriented towards a micro-level analysis of ...
Johan Brännmark +2 more
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Instituting facts: Data structures and institutional order
Information and Organization, 2016 AbstractThe concept of the data structure is part of the accepted and relatively unexplored background of the information disciplines. As such, the data structure is treated largely as a technological artefact, helping to support but somewhat isolated from considerations of institutional order.
Paul Beynon-Davies
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The Intentionality, Intersubjectivity, and Causability of Civil Law Transactions
Acta Universitatis Lodziensis Folia Iuridica, 2023 The paper presents and discusses the principle of causability as expressed in many civil codes. This principle requires that the existence of any obligations of transfers of ownership the legal cause – usually associated with 3 types of dealings having ...
Mariusz J. Golecki +1 more
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The Formation of the Legal Facts Theory in the Context of the Development of Legal Science
Teisė, 2021 This article reveals misconceptions in the study of the theory of legal facts in Roman law studies . The use of an institutional approach in Roman law studies led to the conclusion that there are no elements of the legal facts theory in Roman ...
Hanna Shafalovich
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Making Up Peoples? Conferralism about Nationality
Journal of Social Ontology, 2018 I will apply Ásta’s conferralist account of sex and gender to nationality, and distinguish two different ways in which nationality is conferred – by institutions (legal nationality), and in social interactions (social nationality).
Maren Behrensen
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A Truth-minimalist Reading of Foucault
Genealogy+Critique, 2021 That we have culturally acquired certain concepts and beliefs, that many concepts that refer to or impose social or cultural classifications have their origin in intended or unintended declarative speech acts, that the institutional facts they ...
Filip Buekens
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The non-existence of institutional facts [PDF]
Synthese, 2021 AbstractThat certain paper bills have monetary value, that Vladimir Putin is the president of Russia, and that Prince Philip is the husband of Queen Elizabeth II: such facts are commonly called ‘institutional facts’ (IFF). IFF are, by definition, facts that exist by virtue of collective recognition (where collective recognition can be direct or ...
Friedrich Christoph Dörge +1 more
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Filosofia Unisinos, 2021 The central intellectual fact of the present era is that knowledge grows. This growth of knowledge is quietly transforming philosophy, making it possible to do a new kind of philosophy.
John R. Searle
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