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

Full Idea

Two different propositions can have the same fact as truth-maker. For example, 'L is happy or L is hungry', and 'L is happy or L is thirsty', which are both made true by the fact that L is happy.

Gist of Idea

Two different propositions can have the same fact as truth-maker

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


The 12 ideas from Marian David

Correspondence is symmetric, while truth-making is taken to be asymmetric [David]
Correspondence is an over-ambitious attempt to explain truth-making [David]
Two different propositions can have the same fact as truth-maker [David]
What makes a disjunction true is simpler than the disjunctive fact it names [David]
One proposition can be made true by many different facts [David]
What matters is truth-making (not truth-makers) [David]
It is assumed that a proposition is necessarily true if its truth-maker exists [David]
Examples show that truth-making is just non-symmetric, not asymmetric [David]
Correspondence theorists see facts as the only truth-makers [David]
A reflexive relation entails that the relation can't be asymmetric [David]
Correspondence theory likes ideal languages, that reveal the structure of propositions [David]
If truths are just identical with facts, then truths will make themselves true [David]