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Single Idea 17325

[filed under theme 3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 2. Truthmaker Relation ]

Full Idea

My charge is that truth-maker theory cannot be integrated into an attractive general account of non-causal dependence.

Gist of Idea

Truth-maker theory can't cope with non-causal dependence

Source

David Liggins (Truth-makers and dependence [2012], 10.6)

Book Ref

'Metaphysical Grounding', ed/tr. Correia,F/Schnieder,B [CUP 2012], p.264


A Reaction

[You'll have to read Liggins to see why]


The 11 ideas with the same theme [how truths relate to their truthmakers]:

The best account of truth-making is isomorphism [Wittgenstein, by Mulligan/Simons/Smith]
Truthmakers are about existential grounding, not about truth [Lewis]
Part-whole is the key relation among truth-makers [Mulligan/Simons/Smith]
Maybe truth-making is an unanalysable primitive, but we can specify principles for it [Smith,B]
Propositions are made true, in virtue of something which explains its truth [Lowe]
Examples show that truth-making is just non-symmetric, not asymmetric [David]
A ground must be about its truth, and not just necessitate it [Merricks]
If truthmaking is classical entailment, then anything whatsoever makes a necessary truth [MacBride]
Truth-maker theory can't cope with non-causal dependence [Liggins]
Moral realism doesn't seem to entail the existence of any things [Cameron]
The truth-making relation can be one-to-one, or many-to-many [Rami]