Reason-based facts

There are many facts that are not brute

? Cf. Anscombe 1958, MacCormick and Weinberger 1986, Ruiter 1993, Searle 1995, Hage 1987, 1997


E.g., losing a game of chess, the existence of money, being punishable on the basis of applicable law

All of these do not exist independent of human minds, and are built on top of other facts

Let’s call such facts reason-based or institutional

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