Music, royalty, religion, law, love, territorial boundaries, moral, education, traditions, dictionary this is the list of my 10 `things that exist only because we believe them to exist`.
What is more real, mountains and forests or words listed above?
`There are portions of the real world, objective facts in the world, that are only facts by human agreement. In a sense, there are things that exist only because we believe them to exist...` (Searle, 1995, 1).
Once you pass your driver-license exam you can notice that rules you just learned don’t always match with reality. In order to avoid an accident would you cross a solid line, even moving in the opposite direction. I think rather yes!? It’s mean that in any unobjective categories there is a big sense of uncertainty. Of course, you cross a solid line and will be punished rather than get injured. The solid line was objective enough but the law which prohibits crossing it doesn't have as big value as our life.
All facts described before there are common belief and agreement in between people that we follow some patterns and ways but there are objective facts that have a different value for the material world.
In opposite to this an objective thing which does not have uncertainty in their matter. Mountains and forests are the same around the world. Monumental or miniature, green or brown, but never biased and uncertain only if a man doesn't want to build a city on the territory of the forest or mountain. Then the next day there is no object any more.
Yet many “objective” facts by Searle, exist in uncertainty and unobjective categories they still stay in inverted commas as their objectivity can be dominated by another objectivity of mortality, in my opinion.
So I can conclude that even if royalty, education, traditions, money and marriages exist just because “we believe them to exist” they have the same level of objectivity as mountains and forests in sense of human being immortality. If tomorrow no people on the earth there are no sense of this discussion.
Bibliography and references
Searle, J. (1995). The construction of social reality. New York: Simon and Shuster
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