19 ideas
| 11257 | The Pythagoreans were the first to offer definitions [Politis, by Politis] |
| 18365 | If truths are just identical with facts, then truths will make themselves true [David] |
| 11235 | 'True of' is applicable to things, while 'true' is applicable to words [Politis] |
| 18362 | Examples show that truth-making is just non-symmetric, not asymmetric [David] |
| 18360 | It is assumed that a proposition is necessarily true if its truth-maker exists [David] |
| 18358 | Two different propositions can have the same fact as truth-maker [David] |
| 18355 | What matters is truth-making (not truth-makers) [David] |
| 18354 | Correspondence is symmetric, while truth-making is taken to be asymmetric [David] |
| 18356 | Correspondence is an over-ambitious attempt to explain truth-making [David] |
| 18363 | Correspondence theorists see facts as the only truth-makers [David] |
| 18364 | Correspondence theory likes ideal languages, that reveal the structure of propositions [David] |
| 18357 | What makes a disjunction true is simpler than the disjunctive fact it names [David] |
| 18359 | One proposition can be made true by many different facts [David] |
| 11277 | Maybe 'What is being? is confusing because we can't ask what non-being is like [Politis] |
| 18361 | A reflexive relation entails that the relation can't be asymmetric [David] |
| 11248 | Necessary truths can be two-way relational, where essential truths are one-way or intrinsic [Politis] |
| 1394 | Can the mental elements of a 'bundle' exist on their own? [Carruthers] |
| 1395 | Why would a thought be a member of one bundle rather than another? [Carruthers] |
| 1396 | We identify persons before identifying conscious states [Carruthers] |