Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Brand Blanshard, Alex Oliver and Paul O'Grady

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3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 1. Truth

4701	To say a relative truth is inexpressible in other frameworks is 'weak', while saying it is false is 'strong' [O'Grady]

4703	The epistemic theory of truth presents it as 'that which is licensed by our best theory of reality' [O'Grady]

3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 7. Making Modal Truths

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Necessary truths seem to all have the same truth-maker [Oliver]

3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 12. Rejecting Truthmakers

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Slingshot Argument: seems to prove that all sentences have the same truth-maker [Oliver]

3. Truth / D. Coherence Truth / 1. Coherence Truth

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Coherence tests for truth without implying correspondence, so truth is not correspondence [Blanshard, by Young,JO]