So to frame latter formally, if I were Chinese, I might "intend to" certain things (live my life, buy a cookie), and "intend that" certain other things happen via collective agency (China wins trade war etc). The difference is that latter strategy avoids reifying the collective.
I'm not contesting that there is real stuff there. I'm arguing that if you take out all bits that are accounted for explicitly in institutional realities (for eg, books and documents by publishing institutions and our roles within them as readers/writers) there's nothing left
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And where is your concept of artificial from? Books universities etc are prostheses like otter dams and birds nests and octopi behaviours. All equally real.
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Consider a dead culture/language whose living speakers have disappeared. It's not cryptic, but only dead language scholars can interpret it. Would you call that a public? What if enough scholars emerge and start larping that dead civilization back to zombie life?
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