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If I say "this mountain didn't exist then", I presumably mean that it was only formed later on -perhaps by a volcano. If I say "this mountain didn't exist half an hour ago", this is such a strange statement that it is not clear what I mean... Perhaps you think that the statement that the mountain didn't exist then is quite clear, however one conceives the context. But suppose someone said "This mountain didn't exist a minute ago, but an exactly similar one did instead". Only the accustomed context allows what is meant to come through clearly. Wittgenstein, On Certainty (1969:237) Humans create then act within a wide range of structures: buildings, expressways, policies, bureaucracies, ideologies, etc. Some of these we label 'physical,' others 'social.' (As suggested by these examples, this paper will only deal with those physical and social structures that are human artifacts.) Although all such structures introduce behavior-constraints and behavior-definitions into our individual and collective lives in one way or another, structures such as buildings and expressways initially appear to physically constrain us in ways social structures do not. On a commonsense account, ignoring ph

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Author

Paul Tibbetts

Publisher

Springer Netherlands; Springer-Verlag; Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science and Business Media LLC (ISSN 0163-8548)

Published

1990

Language

EN

Field

Psychology (Social Sciences)