Reply to Fine on Aboutness

A reply to Fine’s critique of Aboutness. Fine contrasts two notions of truthmaker, and more generally two notions of “state.” One is algebraic; states are sui generis entities grasped primarily through the conditions they satisfy. The other uses set theory; states are sets of worlds, or, perhaps, co...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Yablo, Stephen
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer Netherlands 2018
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/116361
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9486-8323