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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Yablo, Stephen
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2014]
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