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searle and the construction of social reality  

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  • In The Construction of Social Reality, published in 1995, John Searle proposed a theory as to how the social world fits naturally into a physical world. Searle's theory is grounded in one core idea that unifies all of his philosophical thought: There is one world constituted by physical matter, and whatever exists in this world must be physical. [Source: Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences; Searle and the Construction of Social Reality]

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