"Isn't abstract art 'just a design,' just 'composition,' just an empty bucket into which one can drop some subject matter?" asks a young woman wearing a blindfold.
Then, Michael Tomasky - having read through Wright's published speeches - finds some subject matter within them that would not be out of place for a Lutheran congregation in North Dakota (or a Church of England sermon in Chipping Norton, for that matter).
Consider some exhaustive set of mutually incompatible hypotheses or theories about some subject matter, {h1, h2, …}.
Following Sosa, Code tends to think of intellectual virtues as broad cognitive faculties or abilities pertaining to some subject matter.
According to a related defense of belief conceptualism, it explains why some thinkers cannot have any thoughts about some subject matter.
So on Fodor's view, the mind is partly modular and the part of the mind that is modular provides some subject matter for cognitive science.
Yet few philosophers would hold that claims about property rights or monetary value are non-truth-evaluable.[2] As this example illustrates, conventionalism need not reflect an "anti-realist" or "deflationary" stance towards some subject matter.
The two usages of the term 'understanding' in ordinary language that Kvanvig focuses on and which he regards as being especially important to epistemology are "when understanding is claimed for some object, such as some subject matter, and when it involves understanding that something is the case".
A firm favourite for some subject matter is the sky, but just one take of the sky wasn't enough for artist Ken Murphy.
"Since most analysts come to their jobs with some subject matter expertise, managers often presume they will learn whatever else they need 'on the job' just as they did [to get there]," Bruce and George write.
