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Full Idea
We might say that the truthmakers for 'six is greater than five' are six and five themselves. On this view, truthmakers for one class of relational truths are non-relational features of the world.
Gist of Idea
In the case of 5 and 6, their relational truthmaker is just the numbers
Source
John Heil (Relations [2009], 'Founding')
Book Ref
'Routledge Companion to Metaphysics', ed/tr. Le Poidevin/Simons etc [Routledge 2012], p.316
A Reaction
That seems to be a good way of expressing the existence of an internal relation.
Related Idea
Idea 21351 Truthmaking is a clear example of an internal relation [Heil]
21347 | If Simmias is taller than Socrates, that isn't a feature that is just in Simmias [Plato] |
22080 | The nature of each category relates itself to another [Hegel] |
6422 | Internal relations are said to be intrinsic properties of two terms, and of the whole they compose [Bradley, by Russell] |
7966 | Relations must be linked to their qualities, but that implies an infinite regress of relations [Bradley] |
21342 | A relation is internal if two things possessing the relation could not fail to be related [Moore,GE, by Heil] |
7968 | A relation is internal if it is unthinkable that its object should not possess it [Wittgenstein] |
7969 | The order of numbers is an internal relation, not an external one [Wittgenstein] |
21351 | Truthmaking is a clear example of an internal relation [Heil] |
21344 | If R internally relates a and b, and you have a and b, you thereby have R [Heil] |
21348 | In the case of 5 and 6, their relational truthmaker is just the numbers [Heil] |
18532 | If causal relations are power manifestations, that makes them internal relations [Heil] |
21353 | Internal relations are fixed by existences, or characters, or supervenience on characters [MacBride] |
7938 | Relational properties are clearly not essential to substances [Macdonald,C] |
14925 | The normal assumption is that relations depend on properties of the relata [Ladyman/Ross] |
18336 | Internal relations depend either on the existence of the relata, or on their properties [Rami] |