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Full Idea
Instances of the truthmaker principle are equivalent to biconditionals not about truth but about the existential grounding of all manner of other things; the flying pigs, or what-have-you.
Gist of Idea
Truthmakers are about existential grounding, not about truth
Source
David Lewis (Forget the 'correspondence theory of truth' [2001])
Book Ref
-: 'Analysis' [-], p.279
A Reaction
The question then is what the difference is between 'existential grounding' and 'truth'. There wouldn't seem to be any difference at all if the proposition in question was a simple existential claim.
10847 | Truthmakers are about existential grounding, not about truth [Lewis] |
10845 | To be true a sentence must express a proposition, and not be ambiguous or vague or just expressive [Lewis] |
10846 | Truthmaker is correspondence, but without the requirement to be one-to-one [Lewis] |