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“The best objects to think with are words, because that is part of what words are for. Indeed, it is a condition for something to be a word that it be thinkable. But” quote by John Rogers Searle — Download Open image

““The best objects to think with are words, because that is part of what words are for. Indeed, it is a condition for something to be a word that it be thinkable. But””

John Rogers Searle

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“institutional facts in general require language because the language is partly constitutive of the facts. But”

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