Ideas of Marian David, by Theme
[American, fl. 2001, Professor at the University of Notre Dame.]
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3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 2. Defining Truth
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If truths are just identical with facts, then truths will make themselves true
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3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 2. Truthmaker Relation
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Examples show that truth-making is just non-symmetric, not asymmetric
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3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 4. Truthmaker Necessitarianism
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It is assumed that a proposition is necessarily true if its truth-maker exists
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3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 5. What Makes Truths / a. What makes truths
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Two different propositions can have the same fact as truth-maker
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3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 5. What Makes Truths / b. Objects make truths
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What matters is truth-making (not truth-makers)
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3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 11. Truthmaking and Correspondence
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Correspondence is symmetric, while truth-making is taken to be asymmetric
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Correspondence is an over-ambitious attempt to explain truth-making
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Correspondence theorists see facts as the only truth-makers
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3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 1. Correspondence Truth
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Correspondence theory likes ideal languages, that reveal the structure of propositions
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3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 2. Correspondence to Facts
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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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8. Modes of Existence / A. Relations / 4. Formal Relations / a. Types of relation
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A reflexive relation entails that the relation can't be asymmetric
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