Abstract
This Note is a clarification and defense of the Durkheimian view that social facts are 'real,' that they can and often do 'constrain' individuals, that they exist independently of and 'external to' individuals, and that they cannot 'without remainder' be reduced to psychological facts or to statements that individuals may or will habitually or as a rule do certain things. This question of the reality of social facts is related to the work of Hart and Searle and to the debate about the connection between factual and moral judgments, and in this way the controversy between the so-called methodological holists and individualists is located within a larger philosophical framework.
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