Abstract
In his theory of truthmaker content, Kit Fine has provided many insights concerning the relation of aboutness, allowing us to understand why a unique subject matter can be associated to a sentence, what is the relation between the subject matter of a sentence and its truth conditions, and why necessary sentences can be distinguished with respect to what they are about.The aim of this chapter is to consider these insights critically, compare them to the notion of subject matter developed by Lewis, and put forward a unified account giving us the resources to overcome some of their limits. The resulting theory characterizes the relation of aboutness by
combining in a consistent framework Lewis’s intuition on how sentences are related to the questions they possibly answer with Fine’s intuition on how sentences are related to their truthmakers.
| Lingua originale | English |
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| Titolo della pubblicazione ospite | Kit Fine on Truthmakers, Relevance, and Non-classical Logic |
| Editor | Frederik Van De Putte Federico L. G. Faroldi |
| Pagine | 407-449 |
| Numero di pagine | 43 |
| Stato di pubblicazione | Pubblicato - 2023 |
Keywords
- Fine
- Lewis
- Subject matter
- Aboutness
- Truthmaker content