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Single Idea 14400

[filed under theme 3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 5. What Makes Truths / d. Being makes truths ]

Full Idea

If 'truth supervenes on being' aims to articulate the idea that truth depends on being, it must say more than that truth supervenes on being.

Gist of Idea

If truth supervenes on being, that won't explain why truth depends on being

Source

Trenton Merricks (Truth and Ontology [2007], 4.VI)

Book Ref

Merricks,Trenton: 'Truth and Ontology' [OUP 2007], p.88

A Reaction

This is a perennial problem with supervenience accounts, such as the supervenience of beauty on the object, or of mind on brain.

The 7 ideas with the same theme [truths supervene on how things actually are]:

6994 Truth supervenes on being [Jackson]
15548 Say 'truth is supervenient on being', but construe 'being' broadly [Lewis]
14025 The weaker version of Truthmaker: 'truth supervenes on being' [Crisp,TM]
14396 If 'truth supervenes on being', worlds with the same entities, properties and relations have the same truths [Merricks]
14400 If truth supervenes on being, that won't explain why truth depends on being [Merricks]
18346 'Truth supervenes on being' only gives necessary (not sufficient) conditions for contingent truths [Rami]
18345 'Truth supervenes on being' avoids entities as truth-makers for negative truths [Rami]