Quote: meaning in language is based on human, institutional facts, not brute facts of nature; only in the stream of life do words have meaning

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A final distinction that Searle makes (originally proposed … [Analysis 18.3 1958] … sense data which we call 'facts' in the … [Brute facts] can never be the basis for any … is based on institutional facts, not brute facts. … inextricably tied up with human institutions. … it was Wittgenstein who put it so succinctly, … [Wittgenstein, Zettel, 1967, para. 173]. Yet, if this is the case, then we have a … and search for documents have been, for the … readily accessible … are the 'brute facts' of documents [e.g., the frequency of an index term]. … On this simple foundation of brute facts we … documents represented by these simple facts? If Searle …   Google-1   Google-2

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Quote: information retrieval is based on the brute facts of documents; can not capture the meaning of a document

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