Aboutness /
Aboutness has been studied from any number of angles. Brentano made it the defining feature of the mental. Phenomenologists try to pin down the aboutness-features of particular mental states. Materialists sometimes claim to have grounded aboutness in natural regularities. Attempts have even been mad...
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| Language: | English |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2014]
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| Series: | Carl G. Hempel lecture series.
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Table of Contents:
- I wasn't talking about that
- Varieties of aboutness
- Inclusion in metaphysics and semantics
- A semantic conception of truthmaking 00 The truth and something but the truth
- Confirmation and verisimilitude
- Knowing that and knowing about
- Extrapolation and its limits
- Goin on in the same way
- Pretense and presupposition
- The missing premise
- What is said