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Full Idea
The truthmaker principle seems to be a version of the correspondence theory of truth, but differs mostly in denying that the correspondence of truths to facts must be one-to-one.
Gist of Idea
Truthmaker is correspondence, but without the requirement to be one-to-one
Source
David Lewis (Forget the 'correspondence theory of truth' [2001], p.277)
Book Ref
-: 'Analysis' [-], p.277
A Reaction
In other words, several different sentences might have exactly the same truthmaker.
10847 | Truthmakers are about existential grounding, not about truth [Lewis] |
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10846 | Truthmaker is correspondence, but without the requirement to be one-to-one [Lewis] |