Single Idea 18874

[catalogued under 3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 5. What Makes Truths / a. What makes truths]

Full Idea

It's definitely not sufficient to be a realist that one be a truthmaker theorist, since one can simply be anti-realist about the truthmakers.

Gist of Idea

Truthmaking doesn't require realism, because we can be anti-realist about truthmakers

Source

Ross P. Cameron (Truthmakers, Realism and Ontology [2008], 'Realism')

Book Reference

'Being: Developments in Contemporary Metaphysics', ed/tr. Le Poidevin,R [CUP 2008], p.116


A Reaction

It is not quite clear how unreal truth makers could actually MAKE propositions true, rather than just being correlated with them.