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Full Idea
The sheer lack of structure demanded by truthmaker theorists means that it is easier to run model-theoretic arguments against them than against correspondence theorists.
Gist of Idea
The vagueness of truthmaker claims makes it easier to run anti-realist arguments
Source
Tim Button (The Limits of Reason [2013], 02.3)
Book Ref
Button,Tim: 'The Limits of Realism' [OUP 2013], p.18
A Reaction
Truthmaking is a vague relation, where correspondence is fairly specific. Model arguments say you can keep the sentences steady, but shuffle around what they refer to.
Related Idea
Idea 18693 Indeterminacy arguments say if a theory can be made true, it has multiple versions [Button]
| 18349 | All truths have truth-makers, but only atomic truths correspond to them [Wittgenstein, by Rami] |
| 10846 | Truthmaker is correspondence, but without the requirement to be one-to-one [Lewis] |
| 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] |
| 18363 | Correspondence theorists see facts as the only truth-makers [David] |
| 14390 | Truthmaker isn't the correspondence theory, because it offers no analysis of truth [Merricks] |
| 18696 | The vagueness of truthmaker claims makes it easier to run anti-realist arguments [Button] |
| 18871 | I support the correspondence theory because I believe in truthmakers [Cameron] |
| 18870 | Maybe truthmaking and correspondence stand together, and are interdefinable [Cameron] |
| 18338 | Truth-making is usually internalist, but the correspondence theory is externalist [Rami] |
| 12463 | Unlike correspondence, truthmaking can be one truth to many truthmakers, or vice versa [Jacobs] |