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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Yablo, Stephen (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Semantics (Philosophy)
Meaning (Philosophy)
Definition (Philosophy)
PHILOSOPHY > Metaphysics.
definition.
Signification (Philosophie)
Definition (Philosophie)
Semantique (Philosophie)
Electronic books.
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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.

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