Anscombe
G. E. M. Anscombe employed the concept of a fact being a brute fact relative to some other fact - the brute fact of paying a bill by handing over some money presupposing for example the existence of an institutionalised currency system. Thus some facts seem to be dependent on others: that a certain piece of paper is worth ten dollars can be explained in terms of the human choices, beliefs, and institutions that support the currency system.
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“An intentional object is given by a word or a phrase which gives a description under which.”
—Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret Anscombe (b. 1919)