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Full Idea
According to the entrenched truthmaker theorist, the fundamental facts consist just of facts citing the existence of entities. It's hard to see how all the complexity we experience could possibly be explained from that sparse basis.
Gist of Idea
Orthodox truthmaker theories make entities fundamental, but that is poor for explanation
Source
Theodore Sider (Writing the Book of the World [2011], 08.5)
Book Ref
Sider,Theodore: 'Writing the Book of the World' [OUP 2011], p.160
A Reaction
This may be the 'entrenched' truthmaker view, but it is not clear why there could not be more complicated fundamental truthmakers, with structure as well as entities. And powers.
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| 15134 | The truthmaker principle requires some specific named thing to make the difference [Williamson] |
| 18355 | What matters is truth-making (not truth-makers) [David] |
| 15012 | Orthodox truthmaker theories make entities fundamental, but that is poor for explanation [Sider] |
| 14395 | If a ball changes from red to white, Truthmaker says some thing must make the change true [Merricks] |
| 14398 | Truthmaker says if an entity is removed, some nonexistence truthmaker must replace it [Merricks] |
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| 13247 | A truthmaker is an object which entails a sentence [Beall/Restall] |