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Full Idea
I argue that the widely held view that truth making is to be understood as entailment is misguided in principle and potentially misleading.
Gist of Idea
The view that truth making is entailment is misguided and misleading
Source
John Heil (From an Ontological Point of View [2003], Intro)
Book Ref
Heil,John: 'From an Ontological Point of View' [OUP 2005], p.11
A Reaction
If reality was just one particle, what would entail the truths about it? Suppose something appears to be self-evident true about reality, but no one can think of any entailments to derive it? Do we assume a priori that they are possible?
| 18467 | Truth-making can't be entailment, because truthmakers are portions of reality [Armstrong] |
| 18468 | Armstrong says truthmakers necessitate their truth, where 'necessitate' is a primitive relation [Armstrong, by MacBride] |
| 7005 | Something can only have a place in a preferred account of things if it is entailed by the account [Jackson] |
| 18469 | God might necessitate that something happen, but He is not the truth-maker for it [Smith,B] |
| 7004 | The view that truth making is entailment is misguided and misleading [Heil] |
| 18360 | It is assumed that a proposition is necessarily true if its truth-maker exists [David] |
| 15395 | Give up objects necessitating truths, and say their natures cause the truths? [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] |
| 18931 | Determinate truths don't need extra truthmakers, just truthmakers that are themselves determinate [Cameron] |
| 18342 | Most theorists say that truth-makers necessitate their truths [Rami] |