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Full Idea
Truth-maker theory says that the attempt by correspondence to fill in the generic truth-maker principle with something more informative fails. It is too ambitious, offering a whole zoo of funny facts that are not needed.
Gist of Idea
Correspondence is an over-ambitious attempt to explain truth-making
Source
Marian David (Truth-making and Correspondence [2009], 1)
Book Ref
'Truth and Truth-Making', ed/tr. Lowe,E.J./Rami,A. [Acumen 2009], p.141
A Reaction
A typical funny fact is a disjunctive fact, which makes 'he is hungry or thirsty' true (when it can just be made true by the simple fact that he is thirsty).
| 18354 | Correspondence is symmetric, while truth-making is taken to be asymmetric [David] |
| 18356 | Correspondence is an over-ambitious attempt to explain truth-making [David] |
| 18358 | Two different propositions can have the same fact as truth-maker [David] |
| 18357 | What makes a disjunction true is simpler than the disjunctive fact it names [David] |
| 18359 | One proposition can be made true by many different facts [David] |
| 18355 | What matters is truth-making (not truth-makers) [David] |
| 18360 | It is assumed that a proposition is necessarily true if its truth-maker exists [David] |
| 18362 | Examples show that truth-making is just non-symmetric, not asymmetric [David] |
| 18363 | Correspondence theorists see facts as the only truth-makers [David] |
| 18361 | A reflexive relation entails that the relation can't be asymmetric [David] |
| 18364 | Correspondence theory likes ideal languages, that reveal the structure of propositions [David] |
| 18365 | If truths are just identical with facts, then truths will make themselves true [David] |