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Full Idea
The term 'truthmaker' just labels whatever stands in the truth-making relation to a truth. The truth-making relation is crucial. It would have been just as well to refer to the truth-'maker' principle as the truth-'making' principle.
Gist of Idea
What matters is truth-making (not truth-makers)
Source
Marian David (Truth-making and Correspondence [2009], 1)
Book Ref
'Truth and Truth-Making', ed/tr. Lowe,E.J./Rami,A. [Acumen 2009], p.138
A Reaction
This is well said. The commitment of this theory is to something which makes each proposition true. There is no initial commitment to any theories about what sorts of things do the job.
| 18354 | Correspondence is symmetric, while truth-making is taken to be asymmetric [David] |
| 18356 | Correspondence is an over-ambitious attempt to explain truth-making [David] |
| 18359 | One proposition can be made true by many different facts [David] |
| 18357 | What makes a disjunction true is simpler than the disjunctive fact it names [David] |
| 18358 | Two different propositions can have the same fact as truth-maker [David] |
| 18355 | What matters is truth-making (not truth-makers) [David] |
| 18360 | It is assumed that a proposition is necessarily true if its truth-maker exists [David] |
| 18363 | Correspondence theorists see facts as the only truth-makers [David] |
| 18361 | A reflexive relation entails that the relation can't be asymmetric [David] |
| 18362 | Examples show that truth-making is just non-symmetric, not asymmetric [David] |
| 18364 | Correspondence theory likes ideal languages, that reveal the structure of propositions [David] |
| 18365 | If truths are just identical with facts, then truths will make themselves true [David] |