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Full Idea
Suppose that God wills that John kiss Mary now. God's willing thereby necessitates the truth of 'John is kissing Mary'. But God's act is not a truth-maker for this judgement.
Gist of Idea
God might necessitate that something happen, but He is not the truth-maker for it
Source
Barry Smith (Truth-maker Realism [1999], p.6), quoted by Fraser MacBride - Truthmakers 1.2
Book Ref
'Stanford Online Encyclopaedia of Philosophy', ed/tr. Stanford University [plato.stanford.edu], p.5
A Reaction
The point is that truth-making relates to the fact that it happened, not what necessitated it to happen. But Armstrong might reply that his truth-maker 'necessitation' primitive is not the kind of necessitation found in worldly relations.
Related Idea
Idea 18468 Armstrong says truthmakers necessitate their truth, where 'necessitate' is a primitive relation [Armstrong, by MacBride]
| 18467 | Truth-making can't be entailment, because truthmakers are portions of reality [Armstrong] |
| 18468 | Armstrong says truthmakers necessitate their truth, where 'necessitate' is a primitive relation [Armstrong, by MacBride] |
| 7005 | Something can only have a place in a preferred account of things if it is entailed by the account [Jackson] |
| 18469 | God might necessitate that something happen, but He is not the truth-maker for it [Smith,B] |
| 7004 | The view that truth making is entailment is misguided and misleading [Heil] |
| 18360 | It is assumed that a proposition is necessarily true if its truth-maker exists [David] |
| 15395 | Give up objects necessitating truths, and say their natures cause the truths? [Cameron] |
| 18867 | Orthodox Truthmaker applies to all propositions, and necessitates their truth [Cameron] |
| 18873 | God fixes all the truths of the world by fixing what exists [Cameron] |
| 18931 | Determinate truths don't need extra truthmakers, just truthmakers that are themselves determinate [Cameron] |
| 18342 | Most theorists say that truth-makers necessitate their truths [Rami] |