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Single Idea 18867

[filed under theme 3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 4. Truthmaker Necessitarianism ]

Full Idea

Orthodox truthmaker theory (Armstrong's) entails Maximalism (that every true proposition has at least one truthmaker), and Necessitarianism (that the existence of a truthmaker necessitates the truth of its proposition).

Gist of Idea

Orthodox Truthmaker applies to all propositions, and necessitates their truth

Source

Ross P. Cameron (Truthmakers, Realism and Ontology [2008], 'Max and Nec')

Book Ref

'Being: Developments in Contemporary Metaphysics', ed/tr. Le Poidevin,R [CUP 2008], p.107

A Reaction

I think I accept both of these. If you say only some truths have truthmakers, the other truths are then baffling. And how could a truthmaker fail in its job? But that doesn't necessitate the existence of the proposition.

The 14 ideas from 'Truthmakers, Realism and Ontology'

18879 What the proposition says may not be its truthmaker [Cameron]
18880 Rather than what exists, some claim that the truthmakers are ways of existence, dispositions, modalities etc [Cameron]
18881 For realists it is analytic that truths are grounded in the world [Cameron]
18869 Without truthmakers, negative truths must be ungrounded [Cameron]
18871 I support the correspondence theory because I believe in truthmakers [Cameron]
18870 Maybe truthmaking and correspondence stand together, and are interdefinable [Cameron]
18868 Surely if some propositions are grounded in existence, they all are? [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]
18872 We should reject distinct but indiscernible worlds [Cameron]
18877 Moral realism doesn't seem to entail the existence of any things [Cameron]
18874 Truthmaking doesn't require realism, because we can be anti-realist about truthmakers [Cameron]
18875 Realism says a discourse is true or false, and some of it is true [Cameron]
18878 Realism says truths rest on mind-independent reality; truthmaking theories are about which features [Cameron]