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T1  - On the Historicity of Social Ontology 
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UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10138/322673 
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A1  - Patomäki, Heikki 
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Y1  - 2020 
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AB  - The question I raise is whether the basic features of mind, social categories, and society are unchanging or changing. Some understandings of ontology would seem to suggest that social ontology is a branch of metaphysics. However, as the history of concepts such as metaphysical and ontology indicate, our concepts and knowledge are historical. It is widely held that society is concept‐ and activity‐dependent. I examine critically two strands of social ontology in terms of their answers to this pr... 
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KW  - 5171 Political Science; 515 Psychology; emergence; future; metaphor; Searle; stage; Whig-history; EMERGENCE; BEHAVIOR; LANGUAGE; REALISM 
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