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Ideas of David Liggins, by Text

[British, fl. 2008, Lecturer at the University of Manchester.]

2008 Nihilism without Self-Contradiction
8 p.191 14231 We should always apply someone's theory of meaning to their own utterances
8 p.192 14232 We normally formalise 'There are Fs' with singular quantification and predication, but this may be wrong
9 p.193 14233 Nihilists needn't deny parts - they can just say that some of the xs are among the ys
2012 Truth-makers and dependence
10.1 p.254 17318 Truthmakers for existence is fine; otherwise maybe restrict it to synthetic truths?
10.3 n5 p.260 17320 Either p is true or not-p is true, so something is true, so something exists
10.4 p.261 17322 Necessities supervene on everything, but don't depend on everything
10.4 p.261 17321 Value, constitution and realisation are non-causal dependences that explain
10.4 p.262 17323 If explanations track dependence, then 'determinative' explanations seem to exist
10.5 p.263 17324 'Because' can signal an inference rather than an explanation
10.6 p.264 17325 Truth-maker theory can't cope with non-causal dependence
10.6 p.266 17326 The dependence of {Socrates} on Socrates involves a set and a philosopher, not facts
10.8 p.270 17327 Non-causal dependence is at present only dimly understood