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Full Idea
The truth-maker for a truth must necessitate that truth.
Gist of Idea
The truth-maker for a truth must necessitate that truth
Source
David M. Armstrong (A World of States of Affairs [1997], p.115), quoted by Pascal Engel - Truth Ch.1
Book Ref
Engel,Pascal: 'Truth' [Acumen 2002], p.23
A Reaction
Armstrong's 'truth-make principle'. It seems to be a necessity which is neither natural nor analytic, making it metaphysically necessary. Or is it part of the definition of truth?
15550 | Properties are contingently existing beings with multiple locations in space and time [Armstrong, by Lewis] |
4798 | In recent writings, Armstrong makes a direct identification of necessitation with causation [Armstrong, by Psillos] |
9497 | Without modality, Armstrong falls back on fictionalism to support counterfactual laws [Bird on Armstrong] |
4743 | The truth-maker for a truth must necessitate that truth [Armstrong] |
4742 | Correspondence may be one-many or many one, as when either p or q make 'p or q' true [Armstrong] |