Dr. Mike Scott - News downloads and aboutness
Plenary talk at Corpus Linguistics Conference in Birmingham about aboutness and how to teach a machine to figure out what a text in really about.

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Dr. Mike Scott - News downloads and aboutness
Plenary talk at Corpus Linguistics Conference in Birmingham about aboutness and how to teach a machine to figure out what a text in really about.
Tipp: Stefanie Hollerbach - Aboutness
25.10.2025 — 06.12.2025 Galerie Gebr. Lehmann in Dresden Stefanie Hollerbach (*2000) ist eine faszinierende Künstlerin, deren Arbeiten sich durch eine feine Sinnlichkeit, eine präzise Formensprache und ein außergewöhnliches Gespür für Materialität auszeichnen. Ihre facettenreichen Werke sind geprägt von einer tiefen Auseinandersetzung mit verschiedenen Medien – von Malerei über Skulptur bis hin…
Dude, its actually fucking insane that you can pick up any philosophical topic at random and there's a pretty good chance that David Lewis will turn out to be one of the goats of the field.
I don't want to fandom post on a very serious and important point so I'm making a new post, but i just saw a great post critiquing purity culture, and this is one reason I like the messaging of Hazbin Hotel so much. Because it takes this
and then says this
It looks at purity culture and says:
It's an imperfect and flawed show that states wholeheartedly that it's okay to be imperfect and flawed. That sorting people into immutable categories of "winners" and "sinners" is reductive and wrong. It looks at a system that condemns people forever as if they're permanently tainted and has its hero say "That's not fair."
And then it proves her right.
That poor rich host who guides, who shows, what opens doors and points. "In the first room we have, oh, oh I see, you'll be staying here then? Are you sure, there are more, after all. Oh. I see. Well, I'll leave you too it then."
Confusing ‘aboutness’ with ‘purpose’ when doing subject analysis
Life isn’t about anything. That includes aboutness itself, so there’s nothing to fret about.