Single Idea 10367

[catalogued under 7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 8. Facts / b. Types of fact]

Full Idea

It can be argued that if all facts are logically equivalent, then there is only one fact - the True.

Gist of Idea

There is only one fact - the True

Source

Jonathan Schaffer (The Metaphysics of Causation [2007], 1.1)

Book Reference

'Stanford Online Encyclopaedia of Philosophy', ed/tr. Stanford University [plato.stanford.edu], p.6


A Reaction

[he cites Davidson's 'Causal Relations', who cites Frege] This is the sort of bizarre stuff you end up with if you start from formal logic and work out to the world, instead of vice versa.