more on this theme     |     more from this thinker     |     more from this text


Single Idea 10749

[filed under theme 3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 7. Making Modal Truths ]

Full Idea

The definition of truth-makers entails that a truth-maker for a given necessary truth is equally a truth-maker for every other necessary truth.

Gist of Idea

Necessary truths seem to all have the same truth-maker

Source

Alex Oliver (The Metaphysics of Properties [1996], §24)

Book Ref

-: 'Mind' [-], p.73


A Reaction

Maybe we could accept this. Necessary truths concern the way things have to be, so all realities will embody them. Are we to say that nothing makes a necessary truth true?