Partial Content and Expressions of Part and Whole. Discussion of Stephen Yablo: Aboutness

Philosophical Studies 174 (3):797-808 (2017)
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In 'Aboutness' (MIT Press 2014), Yablo argues for the importance of the notions of partial content and of partial truth. This paper argues that those notions are involved in a much greater range of entities than acknowledged by Yablo. The paper also argues that some of those entities involve a notion of partial satisfaction as well as partial existence (and partial validity).

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Friederike Moltmann
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