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Single Idea 18485

[filed under theme 3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 12. Rejecting Truthmakers ]

Full Idea

Even an idealist could accept that there are truth-makers whilst thinking of them as mind-dependent entities.

Gist of Idea

Even idealists could accept truthmakers, as mind-dependent

Source

Fraser MacBride (Truthmakers [2013], 3.1)

Book Ref

'Stanford Online Encyclopaedia of Philosophy', ed/tr. Stanford University [plato.stanford.edu], p.22

A Reaction

This undercuts anyone (me, perhaps?) who was hoping to prop up their robust realism with an angry demand to be shown the truthmakers.

The 15 ideas with the same theme [opposing the claim that all truths have truthmakers]:

19044 Saying truths fit experience adds nothing to truth; nothing makes sentences true [Davidson]
10750 Slingshot Argument: seems to prove that all sentences have the same truth-maker [Oliver]
9140 Which toothbrush is the truthmaker for 'buy one, get one free'? [Sorensen]
14024 Truthmaker has problems with generalisation, non-existence claims, and property instantiations [Crisp,TM]
14412 Speculations about non-existent things are not about existent things, so Truthmaker is false [Merricks]
14414 I am a truthmaker for 'that a human exists', but is it about me? [Merricks]
12442 'Mickey Mouse is a fictional mouse' is true without a truthmaker [Azzouni]
18474 Does 'this sentence has no truth-maker' have a truth-maker? Reductio suggests it can't have [MacBride]
18485 Even idealists could accept truthmakers, as mind-dependent [MacBride]
18490 Maybe 'makes true' is not an active verb, but just a formal connective like 'because'? [MacBride]
18493 Truthmaker talk of 'something' making sentences true, which presupposes objectual quantification [MacBride]
17318 Truthmakers for existence is fine; otherwise maybe restrict it to synthetic truths? [Liggins]
14480 Maybe analytic truths do not require truth-makers, as they place no demands on the world [Thomasson]
18863 What is the truthmaker for a possible new power? [Tallant]
19079 For idealists reality is like a collection of beliefs, so truths and truthmakers are not distinct [Young,JO]