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Aboutness

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ISBN-10: 0691144958

ISBN-13: 9780691144955

Edition: 2014

Authors: Stephen Yablo

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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 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.Aboutnessis 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…    
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List price: $52.00
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 5/23/2014
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Size: 0.10" wide x 0.10" long x 0.10" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Stephen Yablo is professor of linguistics and philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of "Things: Papers on Objects, Events, and Properties" and "Thoughts: Papers on Mind, Meaning, and Modality".