ABSTRACT
Several decades ago a great effort began to reduce Aboutness to Nature. One thing became clear over time. We have no real grip on whether the two align. We’ve no such grip—as I put it in the Introduction—on whether thought relates to its truth conditions like a tree to its age, a bee dance to its target, smoke to its cause, or the disjunction of suchlike. We’ve no real grip on correlations that may sit between Aboutness and natural fact. The reasonable position to adopt—on this issue at least—is Wait-and-See. Perhaps there’s a tight fit out there. Perhaps there’s not. We don’t yet know. Wait-and-See.
