This paper is an argument against Truthmaker Necessitarianism — the doctrine that the existence of a truthmaker necessitates the truth of the proposition it makes true. Armstrong’s sufficiency argument for necessitarianism is examined and shown to be question begging. It is then argued in detail that truthmaking is a matter of grounding truth and that grounding is a dependency relation that neither entails nor reduces to necessitation
The paper criticizes the truthmaker principle that every truth is made true by something. If we inte...
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Oxford University Press ...
Abstract. The aim of this paper is first to defend the intuition that truth is grounded in how thing...
Truthmaker necessitarianism is the view that an object is a truthmaker for a truth-bearer only if it...
Truthmaker necessitarianism is the view that an object is a truthmaker for a truth-bearer only if it...
In this paper I examine two principles of orthodox truthmaker theory: truthmaker maximalism - the do...
I propose an account truthmaking that provides truthmakers for negative truths. The account replaces...
The purpose of this paper is to propose and defend an absolute principle of truthmaking, a...
Can there be grounding without necessitation? Can a fact obtain wholly in virtue of metaphysically m...
First paragraph: Truthmaker theory maintains that for every truth there is something, some thing, so...
The core of the truthmaker research program is that true propositions are made true by appropriate p...
A truthmaker solution to the Gettier problems is based on the idea that knowledge can be defined as ...
Truths require truthmakers, many think. In this paper I will discuss the scope of this req...
In his criticism of Armstrong’s argument against nominalism, Parsons (1999) makes a crucial use of a...
The paper criticizes the truthmaker principle that every truth is made true by something. If we inte...
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Oxford University Press ...
Abstract. The aim of this paper is first to defend the intuition that truth is grounded in how thing...
Truthmaker necessitarianism is the view that an object is a truthmaker for a truth-bearer only if it...
Truthmaker necessitarianism is the view that an object is a truthmaker for a truth-bearer only if it...
In this paper I examine two principles of orthodox truthmaker theory: truthmaker maximalism - the do...
I propose an account truthmaking that provides truthmakers for negative truths. The account replaces...
The purpose of this paper is to propose and defend an absolute principle of truthmaking, a...
Can there be grounding without necessitation? Can a fact obtain wholly in virtue of metaphysically m...
First paragraph: Truthmaker theory maintains that for every truth there is something, some thing, so...
The core of the truthmaker research program is that true propositions are made true by appropriate p...
A truthmaker solution to the Gettier problems is based on the idea that knowledge can be defined as ...
Truths require truthmakers, many think. In this paper I will discuss the scope of this req...
In his criticism of Armstrong’s argument against nominalism, Parsons (1999) makes a crucial use of a...
The paper criticizes the truthmaker principle that every truth is made true by something. If we inte...
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Oxford University Press ...
Abstract. The aim of this paper is first to defend the intuition that truth is grounded in how thing...
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