Yablo Aboutness

Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-4598-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 3, 240 Seiten

Reihe: Carl G. Hempel Lecture Series

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Yablo, Stephen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Sprachphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface 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

Über Autor(innen)

Stephen Yablo is professor of linguistics and philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of Things: Papers on Objects, Events, and Properties and Thoughts: Papers on Mind, Meaning, and Modality.