Rules and Realism: Remarks on the Poverty of Brute Facts
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- Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 07:09:02 -0700 (PDT)
In this paper, I offer a critical reconstruction of John Searle's
argument for what he calls `External Realism.� I argue that Searle�s
thesis is in fact ambiguous, and hence that it cannot establish the
existence of brute entities (even if it can establish that we must
presuppose an external world). I further argue that, once properly
understood, constitutive rules can be shown to be prior to, rather
than dependent on, what Searle calls `brute facts� -- and hence that
Searle�s analysis reverses the order of priority between rules and
brute facts. Link: http://www.sorites.org/Issue_16/wisnewsk.htm
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