Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Archimedes, Benjamin Constant and Trenton Merricks
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3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 2. Truthmaker Relation
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A ground must be about its truth, and not just necessitate it [Merricks]
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3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 5. What Makes Truths / a. What makes truths
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Truthmaker needs truths to be 'about' something, and that is often unclear [Merricks]
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3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 5. What Makes Truths / b. Objects make truths
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If a ball changes from red to white, Truthmaker says some thing must make the change true [Merricks]
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Truthmaker says if an entity is removed, some nonexistence truthmaker must replace it [Merricks]
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If Truthmaker says each truth is made by the existence of something, the theory had de re modality at is core [Merricks]
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3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 5. What Makes Truths / c. States of affairs make truths
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Truthmaker demands not just a predication, but an existing state of affairs with essential ingredients [Merricks]
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3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 5. What Makes Truths / d. Being makes truths
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If 'truth supervenes on being', worlds with the same entities, properties and relations have the same truths [Merricks]
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If truth supervenes on being, that won't explain why truth depends on being [Merricks]
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3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 6. Making Negative Truths
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It is implausible that claims about non-existence are about existing things [Merricks]
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3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 11. Truthmaking and Correspondence
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Truthmaker isn't the correspondence theory, because it offers no analysis of truth [Merricks]
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3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 12. Rejecting Truthmakers
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Speculations about non-existent things are not about existent things, so Truthmaker is false [Merricks]
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I am a truthmaker for 'that a human exists', but is it about me? [Merricks]
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