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European Journal of Analytic Philosophy, Vol. 3 No. 2, 2007.

Original scientific paper

About Aboutness

Nathan Salmon

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Abstract

A Russellian notion of what it is for a proposition to be “directly about” something in particular is defined. Various strong and weak, and mediate
and immediate, Russellian notions of general (direct or indirect) aboutness are then defined in terms of Russellian direct aboutness. In particular,
a proposition is about something iff the proposition is either directly, or strongly indirectly, about that thing. A competing Russellian account, due to Kaplan, is criticized through a distinction between knowledge by description and denoting by description. The epistemological significance of Russellian aboutness is assessed. A Russellian substitute for de re propositional attitude is considered.

Keywords

Russellian propositions; direct and indirect aboutness; knowledge by acquaintance and by description; denoting; de re propositional attitudes

Hrčak ID:

93213

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/93213

Publication date:

30.10.2007.

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