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about +‎ -ness

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  • Traditionally aboutness is conceived in terms of representations.

    Strange Affinities: A Partial Return to Wordsworthian Poetics After Modernism 2003

  • Subject analysis is a fuzzy discipline - decisions on "aboutness" are hard.

    Libraries Maxine 2009

  • Doesn't the "aboutness" of a story rank up there in importance?

    Turning Pages 2010

  • The "aboutness" and "goal-directedness" of eukaryotic cells and how it relates to nano-intentionality is defined as follows (p14):

    2009 September - Telic Thoughts 2009

  • Instead, he talked about "aboutness" or the book's "guts" as ways to approach the same issue.

    Let Them Eat Cake Editorial Anonymous 2010

  • "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."

    Internet News: Meta Tag Use in Search 2008

  • "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."

    Internet News: Search Technology Archives 2009

  • A vital question here, as you clearly grasp, is the question of intentionality, or 'aboutness', or representation.

    Bits and Pieces of an RNA World 2007

  • "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."

    Internet News: May 2008 Archives 2008

  • The evaluation of the page doesn't seem to get at accuracy or "aboutness" as clearly as you might wish for.

    Social Searching with URL.com - Freshblog 2006

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