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Full Idea
The one and only way of having a place in an account told in some set of preferred terms is by being entailed by that account - a view I will refer to as the entry by entailment thesis.
Gist of Idea
Something can only have a place in a preferred account of things if it is entailed by the account
Source
Frank Jackson (From Metaphysics to Ethics [1998], Ch.1)
Book Ref
Jackson,Frank: 'From Metaphysics to Ethics' [OUP 2000], p.5
A Reaction
How do we distinguish between the original account, which seems to be just accepted, and the additions which accrue because they are entailed by it? Why does this club distinguish members from guests?
| 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] |