TY  - BOOK
AU  - Yablo,Stephen
TI  - Aboutness
T2  - Carl G. Hempel Lecture Series
SN  - 9780691144955
AV  - B840 .Y33 2017
U1  - 110 23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Definition (Philosophy)
KW  - Meaning (Philosophy)
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Metaphysics
KW  - Semantics (Philosophy)
KW  - PHILOSOPHY / Language
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Alfred Tarski
KW  - Carnap
KW  - David Lewis
KW  - Gilbert Ryle
KW  - Nelson Goodman
KW  - William James
KW  - aboutness
KW  - alethic extrapolation
KW  - assertive content
KW  - closure violations
KW  - confirmation theory
KW  - content-part
KW  - content-parts
KW  - contextualism
KW  - counterfactualism
KW  - epistemic modality
KW  - false statements
KW  - finite beings
KW  - hyperbole
KW  - inductive extrapolation
KW  - infinity
KW  - intrinsic variation
KW  - knowledge
KW  - logical substraction
KW  - logical subtraction
KW  - logician
KW  - loose talk
KW  - meaning
KW  - metaontoloy
KW  - metaphysics
KW  - mysterian
KW  - number fictionalism
KW  - ontology
KW  - partial truth
KW  - philosophical methodology
KW  - philosophy of language
KW  - piggybacking
KW  - pivoting
KW  - preferences
KW  - projective extrapolation
KW  - quantifiers
KW  - recursive model
KW  - reductive model
KW  - selection
KW  - semantic content
KW  - semantics
KW  - sentence
KW  - subject matter
KW  - surplus content
KW  - truth-conditions
KW  - truth-value
KW  - truth
KW  - truthmakers
KW  - type 4 extrapolation
KW  - unexpected content
KW  - upward difference transmission
KW  - verisimilitude
KW  - versimilitude
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; How to Read This Book --; Introduction --; 1. I Wasn't Talking about That --; 2. Varieties of Aboutness --; 3. Inclusion in Metaphysics and Semantics --; 4. A Semantic Conception of Truthmaking --; 5. The Truth and Something But the Truth --; 6. Confirmation and Verisimilitude --; 7. Knowing That and Knowing About --; 8. Extrapolation and Its Limits --; 9. Going On in the Same Way --; 10. Pretense and Presupposition --; 11. The Missing Premise --; 12. What Is Said --; Appendix --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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. Aboutness is 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 the scenarios in which a sentence is true. Nothing is said about the principle of selection--about what in a scenario gets it onto the list. Subject matter is the missing link here. A sentence is true because of how matters stand where its subject matter is concerned. Stephen Yablo maintains that this is not just a feature of subject matter, but its essence. One indicates what a sentence is about by mapping out logical space according to its changing ways of being true or false. The notion of content that results--directed content--is brought to bear on a range of philosophical topics, including ontology, verisimilitude, knowledge, loose talk, assertive content, and philosophical methodology. Written by one of today's leading philosophers, Aboutness represents a major advance in semantics and the philosophy of language
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400845989?locatt=mode:legacy
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