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.
Giordani, A., On the Notion of Aboutness in Logical Semantics, in Federico L. G. Faroldi, F. V. D. P. (ed.), Kit Fine on Truthmakers, Relevance, and Non-classical Logic, Springer Nature, Cham 2023: 407- 449 [https://hdl.handle.net/10807/259254]
On the Notion of Aboutness in Logical Semantics
Giordani, Alessandro
Primo
2023
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.
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