Aboutness Polly G. LaBarre steps on graffiti artists’ toes

steps on graffiti artists’ toes

" - Sadie Oliver

with its poetry jam sessions

when we no longer know who we are

beginning before the human race moved out of Africa to explore and settle other continents

Aboutness Polly G. LaBarre steps on graffiti artists’ toesAboutness 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;