A Documentary Theory of States and Their Existence as Quasi-Abstract Entities

E. Robinson

DOI:10.1080/14650045.2014.913027

Corpus ID: 67844415

A Documentary Theory of States and Their Existence as Quasi-Abstract Entities

@article{Robinson2014ADT,
  title={A Documentary Theory of States and Their Existence as Quasi-Abstract Entities},
  author={E. Robinson},
  journal={Geopolitics},
  year={2014},
  volume={19},
  pages={461 - 489}
}

E. Robinson
Published 2014
Sociology
Geopolitics

This article is concerned with the existence of states as a matter of fact, and it approaches that subject within the context of the ontology of social reality as a whole. It argues, first, that states do not have a place in the traditional Platonist duality of the concrete and the abstract. Second, that states belong to a third category – the quasi-abstract – that has received philosophical attention with a recently emerging theory of documentality. Documentality, derived from Austin’s theory… Expand

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