Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Cardinal/Hayward/Jones, Jonathan Dancy and Fraser MacBride
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3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 2. Defining Truth
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We might define truth as arising from the truth-maker relation [MacBride]
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3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 1. For Truthmakers
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Phenomenalists, behaviourists and presentists can't supply credible truth-makers [MacBride]
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3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 2. Truthmaker Relation
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If truthmaking is classical entailment, then anything whatsoever makes a necessary truth [MacBride]
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3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 3. Truthmaker Maximalism
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'Maximalism' says every truth has an actual truthmaker [MacBride]
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Maximalism follows Russell, and optimalism (no negative or universal truthmakers) follows Wittgenstein [MacBride]
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3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 5. What Makes Truths / a. What makes truths
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The main idea of truth-making is that what a proposition is about is what matters [MacBride]
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3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 6. Making Negative Truths
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There aren't enough positive states out there to support all the negative truths [MacBride]
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There are different types of truthmakers for different types of negative truth [MacBride]
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3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 8. Making General Truths
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Optimalists say that negative and universal are true 'by default' from the positive truths [MacBride]
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3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 12. Rejecting Truthmakers
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Maybe 'makes true' is not an active verb, but just a formal connective like 'because'? [MacBride]
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Truthmaker talk of 'something' making sentences true, which presupposes objectual quantification [MacBride]
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Does 'this sentence has no truth-maker' have a truth-maker? Reductio suggests it can't have [MacBride]
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Even idealists could accept truthmakers, as mind-dependent [MacBride]
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3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 3. Correspondence Truth critique
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The correspondence theory also has the problem that two sets of propositions might fit the facts equally well [Dancy,J]
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3. Truth / D. Coherence Truth / 1. Coherence Truth
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Rescher says that if coherence requires mutual entailment, this leads to massive logical redundancy [Dancy,J]
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If one theory is held to be true, all the other theories appear false, because they can't be added to the true one [Dancy,J]
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3. Truth / D. Coherence Truth / 2. Coherence Truth Critique
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Even with a tight account of coherence, there is always the possibility of more than one set of coherent propositions [Dancy,J]
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