Precis of aboutness

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• 作者：Stephen Yablo
• 关键词：Meaning ; Truth ; Metaphysics ; Intentionality ; Propositions
• 刊名：Philosophical Studies
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：March 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：174
• 期：3
• 页码：771-777
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• 刊物类别：Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
• 刊物主题：Philosophy, general; Epistemology; Philosophy of Mind; Ethics; Metaphysics; Philosophy of Language;
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-0883
• 卷排序：174

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A lightning fast summary of Yablo, Aboutness, cutting many corners in the interests of brevity. The emphasis is on “ways.” Substituting “ways for S to be true” in for “worlds in which S is true” improves a number of philosophical explanations. The subject matter of S is identified with S’s ways of holding in a world, or failing, as the case may be. S contains T iff T is implied by S, and T’s ways of being true (false) are implied by ways for S to be true (false); this kind of way-implication is the same as subject matter inclusion. S’s surplus content over T is explained as that portion of the content of S that is not about whether T. Subject matter is cast throughout as a full partner in meaning.