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Full Idea
There is no reason in principle why the ultimate source of what is true should always lie in what exists.
Gist of Idea
Truths need not always have their source in what exists
Source
Kit Fine (Guide to Ground [2012], 1.03)
Book Ref
'Metaphysical Grounding', ed/tr. Correia,F/Schnieder,B [CUP 2012], p.44
A Reaction
This seems to be the weak point of the truthmaker theory, since truths about non-existence are immediately in trouble. Saying reality makes things true is one thing, but picking out a specific bit of it for each truth is not so easy.
Related Idea
Idea 18877 Moral realism doesn't seem to entail the existence of any things [Cameron]
| 17282 | Truths need not always have their source in what exists [Fine,K] |
| 18509 | Not all truths need truthmakers - mathematics and logic seem to be just true [Heil] |
| 18473 | 'Maximalism' says every truth has an actual truthmaker [MacBride] |
| 18481 | Maximalism follows Russell, and optimalism (no negative or universal truthmakers) follows Wittgenstein [MacBride] |
| 18868 | Surely if some propositions are grounded in existence, they all are? [Cameron] |
| 18928 | If maximalism is necessary, then that nothing exists has a truthmaker, which it can't have [Cameron] |
| 17962 | The truth-maker principle is that every truth has a sufficient truth-maker [Forrest] |
| 18333 | Central idea: truths need truthmakers; and possibly all truths have them, and makers entail truths [Rami] |
| 18866 | Maybe only 'positive' truths need truth-makers [Tallant] |