Single Idea 18919

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

Full Idea

A false proposition is not made false by anything like a 'falsifying' fact. A false proposition simply fails to be made true by any fact.

Gist of Idea

There are no 'falsifying' facts, only an absence of truthmakers

Source

George Engelbretsen (Trees, Terms and Truth [2005], 4)

Book Reference

'The Old New Logic', ed/tr. Oderberg,David S. [MIT 2005], p.44


A Reaction

Sounds good. In truthmaker theory, one truth-value (T) is 'made', but the other one is not, so there is no symmetry between the two. Better to talk of T and not-T? See ideas on Excluded Middle.

Related Idea

Idea 17924 Excluded middle says P or not-P; bivalence says P is either true or false [Colyvan]