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Full Idea
If negative truths don't have truthmakers then make no mistake: they are ungrounded.
Gist of Idea
Without truthmakers, negative truths must be ungrounded
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
What would be the grounding for truths which expressed the necessary preconditions for all existence? Could 'nothing whatever exists' ever be a truth?