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What is an aboutness?

What is an aboutness? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The relevance of a text to its reader. [First attested in the early 20th century.]
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It's just that their aboutness can't be translated into non-visual terms.
One state of the world, including a state in a computer, may carry information about other states in the world, and this informational aboutness is a mind-independent feature of states.
We rejected Ryle's criterion for topic-neutrality because it appealed to an unclarified notion of aboutness.

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