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Full Idea
For millenia, philosophers operated with an implicit conception of truthmaking, a conception that remained unarticulated only because it was part of the very fabric of philosophy.
Gist of Idea
Philosophers of the past took the truthmaking idea for granted
Source
John Heil (The Universe as We Find It [2012], 07.2)
Book Ref
Heil,John: 'The Universe as We Find It' [OUP 2012], p.139
A Reaction
Presumably it is an advance that we have brought it out into the open, and subjected it to critical study. Does Heil want us to return to it being unquestioned? I like truthmaking, but that can't be right.
| 15775 | Truth-thinking does not make it so; it being so is what makes it true [Aristotle] |
| 5777 | The truth or falsehood of a belief depends upon a fact to which the belief 'refers' [Russell] |
| 18487 | We want to know what makes sentences true, rather than defining 'true' [McFetridge] |
| 18531 | Philosophers of the past took the truthmaking idea for granted [Heil] |
| 18344 | Truth and falsehood must track what does or doesn't exist [Bigelow] |
| 18484 | Phenomenalists, behaviourists and presentists can't supply credible truth-makers [MacBride] |
| 18335 | There are five problems which the truth-maker theory might solve [Rami] |
| 18334 | The truth-maker idea is usually justified by its explanatory power, or intuitive appeal [Rami] |