The second capacity needed to create institutional facts is the human ability to impose functions on objects—to take an object and give it a function through intentional assignment that is observer-relative

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Speaker

John Searle

Evidence Quote

humans have a remarkable capacity that some animals have but not all animals and that is they can impose functions on objects they can take an object and give it a function

Source

The Logical Structure of Human Civilization (John Searle)Philosophy Overdose
Created: 8/12/2026, 6:18:37 PM

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