Aboutness /

Aboutness / / Stephen Yablo.

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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Yablo, Stephen,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
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Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Carl G. Hempel Lecture Series ; 3
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t Contents --   |t Preface --   |t How to Read This Book --   |t Introduction --   |t 1. I Wasn't Talking about That --   |t 2. Varieties of Aboutness --   |t 3. Inclusion in Metaphysics and Semantics --   |t 4. A Semantic Conception of Truthmaking --   |t 5. The Truth and Something But the Truth --   |t 6. Confirmation and Verisimilitude --   |t 7. Knowing That and Knowing About --   |t 8. Extrapolation and Its Limits --   |t 9. Going On in the Same Way --   |t 10. Pretense and Presupposition --   |t 11. The Missing Premise --   |t 12. What Is Said --   |t Appendix --   |t Bibliography --   |t Index 
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520 |a 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 made, in library science and information theory, to operationalize the notion. But it has played no real role in philosophical semantics. This is surprising; sentences have aboutness-properties if anything does. Aboutness is the first book to examine through a philosophical lens the role of subject matter in meaning. A long-standing tradition sees meaning as truth-conditions, to be specified by listing the scenarios in which a sentence is true. Nothing is said about the principle of selection--about what in a scenario gets it onto the list. Subject matter is the missing link here. A sentence is true because of how matters stand where its subject matter is concerned. Stephen Yablo maintains that this is not just a feature of subject matter, but its essence. One indicates what a sentence is about by mapping out logical space according to its changing ways of being true or false. The notion of content that results--directed content--is brought to bear on a range of philosophical topics, including ontology, verisimilitude, knowledge, loose talk, assertive content, and philosophical methodology. Written by one of today's leading philosophers, Aboutness represents a major advance in semantics and the philosophy of language. 
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650 0 |a Meaning (Philosophy). 
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653 |a Alfred Tarski. 
653 |a Carnap. 
653 |a David Lewis. 
653 |a Gilbert Ryle. 
653 |a Nelson Goodman. 
653 |a William James. 
653 |a aboutness. 
653 |a alethic extrapolation. 
653 |a assertive content. 
653 |a closure violations. 
653 |a confirmation theory. 
653 |a content-part. 
653 |a content-parts. 
653 |a contextualism. 
653 |a counterfactualism. 
653 |a epistemic modality. 
653 |a false statements. 
653 |a finite beings. 
653 |a hyperbole. 
653 |a inductive extrapolation. 
653 |a infinity. 
653 |a intrinsic variation. 
653 |a knowledge. 
653 |a logical substraction. 
653 |a logical subtraction. 
653 |a logician. 
653 |a loose talk. 
653 |a meaning. 
653 |a metaontoloy. 
653 |a metaphysics. 
653 |a mysterian. 
653 |a number fictionalism. 
653 |a ontology. 
653 |a partial truth. 
653 |a philosophical methodology. 
653 |a philosophy of language. 
653 |a piggybacking. 
653 |a pivoting. 
653 |a preferences. 
653 |a projective extrapolation. 
653 |a quantifiers. 
653 |a recursive model. 
653 |a reductive model. 
653 |a selection. 
653 |a semantic content. 
653 |a semantics. 
653 |a sentence. 
653 |a subject matter. 
653 |a surplus content. 
653 |a truth-conditions. 
653 |a truth-value. 
653 |a truth. 
653 |a truthmakers. 
653 |a type 4 extrapolation. 
653 |a unexpected content. 
653 |a upward difference transmission. 
653 |a verisimilitude. 
653 |a versimilitude. 
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