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Book SynopsisAboutness 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 o
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Table of ContentsPreface vii How to Read This Book xi Introduction 1 1 I Wasn't Talking about That 7 2 Varieties of Aboutness 23 3 Inclusion in Metaphysics and Semantics 45 4 A Semantic Conception of Truthmaking 54 5 The Truth and Something But the Truth 77 6 Confirmation and Verisimilitude 95 7 Knowing That and Knowing About 112 8 Extrapolation and Its Limits 131 9 Going On in the Same Way 142 10 Pretense and Presupposition 165 11 The Missing Premise 178 12 What Is Said 189 Appendix. Nomenclature 207 Bibliography 209 Index 219
