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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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Autor principal: Yablo, Stephen (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a 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. 
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