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Traditionally aboutness is conceived in terms of representations.
Strange Affinities: A Partial Return to Wordsworthian Poetics After Modernism 2003
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Subject analysis is a fuzzy discipline - decisions on "aboutness" are hard.
Libraries Maxine 2009
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Doesn't the "aboutness" of a story rank up there in importance?
Turning Pages 2010
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The "aboutness" and "goal-directedness" of eukaryotic cells and how it relates to nano-intentionality is defined as follows (p14):
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Instead, he talked about "aboutness" or the book's "guts" as ways to approach the same issue.
Let Them Eat Cake Editorial Anonymous 2010
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"Meta-tag keywords and descriptions become more important when the search engines are not able to determine (or have a difficult time determining) the" aboutness "of a file, such as a video file."
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"Meta-tag keywords and descriptions become more important when the search engines are not able to determine or have a difficult time determining the "aboutness" of a file, such as a video file."
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A vital question here, as you clearly grasp, is the question of intentionality, or 'aboutness', or representation.
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"Meta-tag keywords and descriptions become more important when the search engines are not able to determine or have a difficult time determining the "aboutness" of a file, such as a video file."
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The evaluation of the page doesn't seem to get at accuracy or "aboutness" as clearly as you might wish for.
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