Aboutness Polly G. LaBarre flight and refuge

flight and refuge

allowing the account its moments of deep intimation

" - Sadie Oliver

with its poetry jam sessions

steps on graffiti artists’ toes

Aboutness Polly G. LaBarre flight and refugeAboutness 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 operationalize the notion. But it has played no real role in philosophical semantics. This is surprising;