Single Idea 21351

[catalogued under 8. Modes of Existence / A. Relations / 2. Internal Relations]

Full Idea

Truthmaking is a paradigmatic internal relation: if you have a truthbearer, a representation, and you have the world as the truthbearer represents it as being, you have truthmaking, you have the truthbearer's being true.

Gist of Idea

Truthmaking is a clear example of an internal relation

Source

John Heil (Relations [2009], 'Causal')

Book Reference

'Routledge Companion to Metaphysics', ed/tr. Le Poidevin/Simons etc [Routledge 2012], p.319


A Reaction

It is nice to have an example of an internal relation other than numbers, and closer to the concrete world. Is the relation between the world and facts about the world the same thing, or another example?

Related Idea

Idea 21348 In the case of 5 and 6, their relational truthmaker is just the numbers [Heil]