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Full Idea
The principle of 'maximalism' is that for every truth, then there must be something in the world that makes it true.
Gist of Idea
'Maximalism' says every truth has an actual truthmaker
Source
Fraser MacBride (Truthmakers [2013], 2.1)
Book Ref
'Stanford Online Encyclopaedia of Philosophy', ed/tr. Stanford University [plato.stanford.edu], p.11
A Reaction
That seems to mean that no truths can be uttered about anything which is not in the world. If I say 'pigs might have flown', that isn't about the modal profile of actual pigs, it is about what might have resulted from that profile.
| 17282 | Truths need not always have their source in what exists [Fine,K] |
| 18509 | Not all truths need truthmakers - mathematics and logic seem to be just true [Heil] |
| 18473 | 'Maximalism' says every truth has an actual truthmaker [MacBride] |
| 18481 | Maximalism follows Russell, and optimalism (no negative or universal truthmakers) follows Wittgenstein [MacBride] |
| 18868 | Surely if some propositions are grounded in existence, they all are? [Cameron] |
| 18928 | If maximalism is necessary, then that nothing exists has a truthmaker, which it can't have [Cameron] |
| 17962 | The truth-maker principle is that every truth has a sufficient truth-maker [Forrest] |
| 18333 | Central idea: truths need truthmakers; and possibly all truths have them, and makers entail truths [Rami] |
| 18866 | Maybe only 'positive' truths need truth-makers [Tallant] |