Making the Social World: The Structure of Human Civilization by Searle John

Author:Searle, John [Searle, John]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010-01-11T16:00:00+00:00

QUESTION 3: HOW IS THIS ACCOUNT CONSISTENT WITH THE BASIC REQUIREMENT?

How can we make the existence of institutional facts that have no physical realization consistent with our basic requirement that everything in the real world should bottom out in the entities of physics and chemistry and the rest of the real world? If we think, as we must, that all institutional facts have to bottom out in brute facts, then how do we deal with these cases that seem to have an abstract or free-floating ontology? On the conception of basic ontology that I have been espousing, it should be impossible for anything in the real world not to be grounded in the basic facts, to be in this way, freestanding. Money, corporations, and blindfold chess cannot just float on thin air.

I have already answered this question implicitly, but let us now make it fully explicit. When we combine the formula that states the creation of the status function in the way that I suggested earlier, it looks like this:

We make it the case by Declaration that the Y status function exists in C, and in so doing we create a relation R between a person, or persons, S and Y, such that in virtue of SRY (S has power (S does A)).

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