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Single Idea 12442
[filed under theme 3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 12. Rejecting Truthmakers
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Full Idea
'Mickey Mouse is a fictional mouse' can be taken as true without have any truthmaker.
Gist of Idea
'Mickey Mouse is a fictional mouse' is true without a truthmaker
Source
Jody Azzouni (Deflating Existential Consequence [2004], Ch.3)
Book Ref
Azzouni,Jody: 'Deflating Existential Consequence' [OUP 2004], p.57
A Reaction
There might be an equivocation over 'true' here. 'What, really really true that he IS a fictional mouse?'
The
15 ideas
with the same theme
[opposing the claim that all truths have truthmakers]:
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19044
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Saying truths fit experience adds nothing to truth; nothing makes sentences true
[Davidson]
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10750
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Slingshot Argument: seems to prove that all sentences have the same truth-maker
[Oliver]
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9140
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Which toothbrush is the truthmaker for 'buy one, get one free'?
[Sorensen]
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14024
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Truthmaker has problems with generalisation, non-existence claims, and property instantiations
[Crisp,TM]
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14412
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Speculations about non-existent things are not about existent things, so Truthmaker is false
[Merricks]
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14414
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I am a truthmaker for 'that a human exists', but is it about me?
[Merricks]
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12442
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'Mickey Mouse is a fictional mouse' is true without a truthmaker
[Azzouni]
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18474
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Does 'this sentence has no truth-maker' have a truth-maker? Reductio suggests it can't have
[MacBride]
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18485
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Even idealists could accept truthmakers, as mind-dependent
[MacBride]
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18490
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Maybe 'makes true' is not an active verb, but just a formal connective like 'because'?
[MacBride]
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18493
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Truthmaker talk of 'something' making sentences true, which presupposes objectual quantification
[MacBride]
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17318
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Truthmakers for existence is fine; otherwise maybe restrict it to synthetic truths?
[Liggins]
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14480
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Maybe analytic truths do not require truth-makers, as they place no demands on the world
[Thomasson]
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18863
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What is the truthmaker for a possible new power?
[Tallant]
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19079
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For idealists reality is like a collection of beliefs, so truths and truthmakers are not distinct
[Young,JO]
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