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Single Idea 18359
[filed under theme 3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 2. Correspondence to Facts
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Full Idea
One proposition can be made true by many different facts (such as 'there are some happy dogs').
Gist of Idea
One proposition can be made true by many different facts
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.141
The
12 ideas
from 'Truth-making and Correspondence'
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Correspondence is symmetric, while truth-making is taken to be asymmetric
[David]
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18356
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Correspondence is an over-ambitious attempt to explain truth-making
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One proposition can be made true by many different facts
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What makes a disjunction true is simpler than the disjunctive fact it names
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Two different propositions can have the same fact as truth-maker
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What matters is truth-making (not truth-makers)
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18360
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It is assumed that a proposition is necessarily true if its truth-maker exists
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Correspondence theorists see facts as the only truth-makers
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A reflexive relation entails that the relation can't be asymmetric
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Examples show that truth-making is just non-symmetric, not asymmetric
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Correspondence theory likes ideal languages, that reveal the structure of propositions
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If truths are just identical with facts, then truths will make themselves true
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