Full Idea
Brandom says that facts do not make claims true, because facts simply are true claims.
Gist of Idea
Facts can't make claims true, because they are true claims
Source
report of Robert B. Brandom (Making It Explicit [1994], p.327) by Martin Kusch - Knowledge by Agreement Ch.18
Book Reference
Kusch,Martin: 'Knowledge by Agreement' [OUP 2004], p.263
A Reaction
Nice. Notoriously, anyone defending the correspondence theory of truth in terms of facts had better say what they mean by a 'fact'. Personally I take a fact to be a non-verbal, mind-independent situation in the world, so I disagree with Brandom.
Related Idea
Idea 5418 In a world of mere matter there might be 'facts', but no truths [Russell]