Partial content and expressions of part and whole

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• 作者：Friederike Moltmann
• 关键词：Part ; whole ; Partial content ; Attitudinal object ; Cognitive product ; Truthmaker semantics ; Partial truth ; Existence
• 刊名：Philosophical Studies
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：March 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：174
• 期：3
• 页码：797-808
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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

文摘

This discussion of Yablo’s book Aboutness focuses on the way partial content and partial truth are reflected in natural language. It argues that natural language reflects a content-based notion of part structure for a much greater range of entities than Yablo acknowledges. Moreover, it argues that some of those entities involve a notion of partial satisfaction rather than partial truth as well as, to an extent, a notion of partial existence or validity.