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Single Idea 6090
[filed under theme 3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 5. What Makes Truths / a. What makes truths
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Full Idea
A fact is the kind of thing that makes a proposition true or false, …and it is the sort of thing that is expressed by a whole sentence, not by a single name like 'Socrates'.
Gist of Idea
Facts make propositions true or false, and are expressed by whole sentences
Source
Bertrand Russell (The Philosophy of Logical Atomism [1918], §I)
Book Ref
Russell,Bertrand: 'Russell's Logical Atomism', ed/tr. Pears,David [Fontana 1972], p.36
A Reaction
It is important to note a point here which I consider vital - that Russell keeps the idea of a fact quite distinct from the language in which it is expressed. Facts are a 'sort of thing', of the kind which are now referred to as 'truth-makers'.
The
21 ideas
with the same theme
[general ideas about what determines truths]:
10915
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The truth or falsity of a belief will be in terms of something that is always this way not that
[Aristotle]
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6090
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Facts make propositions true or false, and are expressed by whole sentences
[Russell]
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18901
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Truthmakers are facts 'of' a domain, not something 'in' the domain
[Sommers]
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10365
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We might use 'facta' to refer to the truth-makers for facts
[Mellor, by Schaffer,J]
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15546
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Predications aren't true because of what exists, but of how it exists
[Lewis]
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10906
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Moments (objects which cannot exist alone) may serve as truth-makers
[Mulligan/Simons/Smith]
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10909
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Truth-makers cannot be the designata of the sentences they make true
[Mulligan/Simons/Smith]
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10907
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The truth-maker for a sentence may not be unique, or may be a combination, or several separate items
[Mulligan/Simons/Smith]
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10912
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Despite negative propositions, truthmakers are not logical complexes, but ordinary experiences
[Mulligan/Simons/Smith]
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15063
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Some sentences depend for their truth on worldly circumstances, and others do not
[Fine,K]
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18358
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Two different propositions can have the same fact as truth-maker
[David]
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14408
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Truthmaker needs truths to be 'about' something, and that is often unclear
[Merricks]
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18483
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The main idea of truth-making is that what a proposition is about is what matters
[MacBride]
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18879
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What the proposition says may not be its truthmaker
[Cameron]
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18880
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Rather than what exists, some claim that the truthmakers are ways of existence, dispositions, modalities etc
[Cameron]
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18874
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Truthmaking doesn't require realism, because we can be anti-realist about truthmakers
[Cameron]
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18932
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The facts about the existence of truthmakers can't have a further explanation
[Cameron]
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18340
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It seems best to assume different kinds of truth-maker, such as objects, facts, tropes, or events
[Rami]
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18860
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A truthmaker is the minimal portion of reality that will do the job
[Tallant]
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18915
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If facts are the truthmakers, they are not in the world
[Engelbretsen]
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18919
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There are no 'falsifying' facts, only an absence of truthmakers
[Engelbretsen]
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