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

Full Idea

The 'entailment principle' for truth-makers says that if x is a truth-maker for y, and y entails z, then x is a truth-maker for z.

Gist of Idea

Maybe a truth-maker also works for the entailments of the given truth

Source

Adolph Rami (Introduction: Truth and Truth-Making [2009], 08)

Book Ref

'Truth and Truth-Making', ed/tr. Lowe,E.J./Rami,A. [Acumen 2009], p.25


A Reaction

I think the correct locution is that 'x is a potential truth-maker for z' (should anyone every formulate z, which in most cases they never will, since the entailments of y are probably infinite). Merricks would ask 'but are y and z about the same thing?'.

Related Idea

Idea 14408 Truthmaker needs truths to be 'about' something, and that is often unclear [Merricks]