{"id":6666,"date":"2023-10-30T07:33:15","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T06:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inframethodology.cbs.dk\/?p=6666"},"modified":"2023-11-23T10:32:35","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T09:32:35","slug":"aboutness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inframethodology.cbs.dk\/?p=6666","title":{"rendered":"Aboutness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>What relation must one fact have to another<br>in order to be capable of being a symbol for that other?<br><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/inframethodology.cbs.dk\/?p=2222\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"2222\">Bertrand Russell<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A paragraph is about something. It&#8217;s actually a minor wonder that we have this ability to make a fact that can so matter-of-factly be about another fact. The trick, of course, is to have something &#8220;in mind&#8221; when we write. A drawing can represent a person or thing by &#8220;looking like&#8221; it. On a good day, I can draw a picture of my face that people who know me would recognize. I can also write a paragraph about my face &#8212; the blue eyes behind the glasses, the beard, the bald head &#8212; that stands in the same relation to my face that the drawing would. That relation is &#8220;aboutness&#8221;. Importantly, the drawing or the writing can be wrong about the thing it represents. To be about something is to be comparable to it. We can set my face against a depiction of it, or a description of it, and we can, on that basis, judge the representation. This paragraph can be wrong about paragraphs, for example. And now we can discuss it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What relation must one fact have to anotherin order to be capable of being a symbol for that other?Bertrand Russell A paragraph is about something. It&#8217;s actually a minor wonder that we have this ability to make a fact that can so matter-of-factly be about another fact. The trick, of course, is to have something &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/inframethodology.cbs.dk\/?p=6666\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Aboutness<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inframethodology.cbs.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inframethodology.cbs.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inframethodology.cbs.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inframethodology.cbs.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inframethodology.cbs.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6666"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inframethodology.cbs.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6777,"href":"https:\/\/inframethodology.cbs.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6666\/revisions\/6777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inframethodology.cbs.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inframethodology.cbs.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inframethodology.cbs.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}