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 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3390195 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Aboutness Context triple: [Stephen Yablo, notableWork, Aboutness]
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A.
Truth and Meaning
Truth and Meaning is a seminal philosophical essay by Donald Davidson that argues for understanding meaning through a formal theory of truth inspired by Tarski.
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B.
Identity and Necessity
Identity and Necessity is a seminal philosophical work by Saul Kripke that develops his influential ideas on modal logic, rigid designation, and the nature of necessary truths about identity.
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C.
Identity, Ostension, and Hypostasis
"Identity, Ostension, and Hypostasis" is a philosophical essay by W.V.O. Quine that examines how reference, naming, and abstract entities arise within our linguistic and conceptual frameworks.
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D.
Logic of Sense
Logic of Sense is a 1969 philosophical work by Gilles Deleuze that explores language, paradox, and the concept of sense through engagements with Stoicism, psychoanalysis, and literature.
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E.
Naming and Necessity
Naming and Necessity is a seminal philosophical work by Saul Kripke that revolutionized the philosophy of language and metaphysics through its arguments about proper names, necessity, and rigid designation.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Aboutness Target entity description: "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.
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A.
Truth and Meaning
Truth and Meaning is a seminal philosophical essay by Donald Davidson that argues for understanding meaning through a formal theory of truth inspired by Tarski.
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B.
Identity and Necessity
Identity and Necessity is a seminal philosophical work by Saul Kripke that develops his influential ideas on modal logic, rigid designation, and the nature of necessary truths about identity.
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C.
Identity, Ostension, and Hypostasis
"Identity, Ostension, and Hypostasis" is a philosophical essay by W.V.O. Quine that examines how reference, naming, and abstract entities arise within our linguistic and conceptual frameworks.
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D.
Logic of Sense
Logic of Sense is a 1969 philosophical work by Gilles Deleuze that explores language, paradox, and the concept of sense through engagements with Stoicism, psychoanalysis, and literature.
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E.
Naming and Necessity
Naming and Necessity is a seminal philosophical work by Saul Kripke that revolutionized the philosophy of language and metaphysics through its arguments about proper names, necessity, and rigid designation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| 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 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Aboutness Description of subject: "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.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.