Aboutness (Carl G. Hempel Lecture Series) – 1st Edition

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Aboutness has been studied from any variety of angles. Brentano made it the defining characteristic of the psychological. Phenomenologists attempt to pin down the aboutness-options of explicit psychological states. Materialists generally declare to have grounded aboutness in pure regularities. Attempts have even been made, in library science and knowledge principle, to operationalize the notion.

But it has performed no actual function in philosophical semantics. This is stunning; sentences have aboutness-properties if something does. Aboutness is the primary guide to look at by a philosophical lens the function of subject material in that means.

 

A protracted-standing custom sees that means as fact-situations, to be specified by itemizing the eventualities wherein a sentence is true. Nothing is claimed in regards to the precept of selection–about what in a state of affairs will get it onto the listing. Subject matter is the lacking hyperlink right here. A sentence is true due to how issues stand the place its subject material is anxious.

Stephen Yablo maintains that this isn’t only a characteristic of subject material, however its essence. One signifies what a sentence is about by mapping out logical house in line with its altering methods of being true or false. The notion of content material that results–directed content–is delivered to bear on a spread of philosophical matters, together with ontology, verisimilitude, data, free speak, assertive content material, and philosophical methodology.

Written by one in every of right now’s main philosophers, Aboutness represents a serious advance in semantics and the philosophy of language.

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Pages: 240 pages

Publication date: 21 Apr 2014

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Language: English

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