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Ideas for Hermarchus, Judith (Jarvis) Thomson and Jonathan D. Jacobs

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3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 11. Truthmaking and Correspondence
Unlike correspondence, truthmaking can be one truth to many truthmakers, or vice versa [Jacobs]
     Full Idea: I assume a form of truthmaking theory, ..which is a many-many relation, unlike, say correspondence, so that one entity can make multiple truths true and one truth can have multiple truthmakers.
     From: Jonathan D. Jacobs (A Powers Theory of Modality [2010], §1)
     A reaction: This sounds like common sense, once you think about it. One tree makes many things true, and one statement about trees is made true by many trees.