Aboutness
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"Aboutness" is a philosophical work by Stephen Yablo that develops a detailed theory of how sentences and thoughts are directed at or concern particular subjects.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Aboutness canonical | 1 |
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
non-fiction book
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philosophical book ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
analyze the structure of subject matter
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connect aboutness with truthmaking ⓘ explain what sentences are about ⓘ reformulate logical consequence in terms of aboutness ⓘ |
| appliesTheoryTo |
logical consequence
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relevance in logic ⓘ truth conditions ⓘ truthmaking ⓘ |
| author | Stephen Yablo ⓘ |
| countryOfPublication |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| describes |
how sentences are about particular subject matters
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how thoughts are directed at topics ⓘ |
| field |
logic
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philosophy ⓘ semantics ⓘ |
| genre | analytic philosophy ⓘ |
| hasCentralConcept |
aboutness-based truth conditions
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irrelevance ⓘ subject-matter entailment ⓘ subject-matter partitions ⓘ topic-sensitive logic ⓘ |
| hasPart | chapters ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
David Lewis
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Gottlob Frege ⓘ Kit Fine ⓘ Rudolf Carnap ⓘ Saul Kripke ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainTopic |
aboutness
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aboutness-based semantics ⓘ intentionality ⓘ logical consequence ⓘ metaphysics ⓘ partial truth ⓘ philosophy of language ⓘ propositional content ⓘ relevance ⓘ subject matter ⓘ truthmaking ⓘ |
| notableFor |
influence on contemporary philosophy of language
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systematic theory of aboutness ⓘ |
| proposes |
a notion of aboutness-based entailment
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a notion of partial truth ⓘ a notion of subject-matter similarity ⓘ a theory of subject matter ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 2014 ⓘ |
| publisher | Princeton University Press ⓘ |
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