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Full Idea
Friends of the truth-maker principle usually hold that the following states a crucial necessary condition on truth-making: if x makes y true, then, necessarily, if x exists then y is true.
Gist of Idea
It is assumed that a proposition is necessarily true if its truth-maker exists
Source
Marian David (Truth-making and Correspondence [2009], 2)
Book Ref
'Truth and Truth-Making', ed/tr. Lowe,E.J./Rami,A. [Acumen 2009], p.144
A Reaction
My objection is that the proposition y is taken to pre-exist, primly awaiting the facts that will award it 'truth'. An ontology that contains an infinity of propositions, most of which so far lack a truth-value, is incoherent. You can have x, but no y!
| 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] |
| 18355 | What matters is truth-making (not truth-makers) [David] |
| 18359 | One proposition can be made true by many different facts [David] |
| 18357 | What makes a disjunction true is simpler than the disjunctive fact it names [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] |