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Full Idea
That 'there is at least one proposition' ...is a case where something makes itself true, which generates a counterexample to the natural assumption that truth-making is asymmetric; truth-making, it seems, is merely non-symmetric.
Clarification
'Asymmetric' can't be symmetric; 'non-symmetric' needn't be symmetric
Gist of Idea
Examples show that truth-making is just non-symmetric, not asymmetric
Source
Marian David (Truth-making and Correspondence [2009], 4)
Book Ref
'Truth and Truth-Making', ed/tr. Lowe,E.J./Rami,A. [Acumen 2009], p.153
Related Idea
Idea 18361 A reflexive relation entails that the relation can't be asymmetric [David]
| 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] |