This short treatise looks at how we construct a social reality from our sense impressions; at how, for example, we construct a "five-pound note" with all that implies in terms of value and social meaning, from the printed piece of paper we see and touch.
| ISBN: | 9780140235906 |
| Publication date: | 26th September 1996 |
| Author: | John Searle |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 256 pages |
| Genres: |
Philosophy of language Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge Semiotics / semiology |