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[filed under theme 3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 5. What Makes Truths / a. What makes truths ]

Full Idea

A proposition may have a minimal truth-maker which is not unique, or a sentence may be made true by no single truth-maker but only by several jointly, or again only by several separately.

Gist of Idea

The truth-maker for a sentence may not be unique, or may be a combination, or several separate items

Source

Mulligan/Simons/Smith (Truth-makers [1984], §3)

Book Ref

'Truth and Truth-Making', ed/tr. Lowe,E.J./Rami,A. [Acumen 2009], p.67