Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Walter Burley, Archimedes and David M. Armstrong
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3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 4. Truthmaker Necessitarianism
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Truth-making can't be entailment, because truthmakers are portions of reality [Armstrong]
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Armstrong says truthmakers necessitate their truth, where 'necessitate' is a primitive relation [Armstrong, by MacBride]
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3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 6. Making Negative Truths
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Negative existentials have 'totality facts' as truthmakers [Armstrong, by Lewis]
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Negative truths have as truthmakers all states of affairs relevant to the truth [Armstrong]
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The nature of arctic animals is truthmaker for the absence of penguins there [Armstrong]
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3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 7. Making Modal Truths
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One truthmaker will do for a contingent truth and for its contradictory [Armstrong]
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In mathematics, truthmakers are possible instantiations of structures [Armstrong]
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The truthmakers for possible unicorns are the elements in their combination [Armstrong]
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What is the truthmaker for 'it is possible that there could have been nothing'? [Armstrong]
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3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 8. Making General Truths
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Necessitating general truthmakers must also specify their limits [Armstrong]
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