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Single Idea 18374

[catalogued under 7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 9. States of Affairs]

Full Idea

There must exist states of affairs as truthmakers, to get us beyond 'loose and separate' entities. ...They can be bundles of tropes, or trope-with-particular, or bundles of universals ('compresence'), or instantiations. They are an addition to ontology.

Gist of Idea

Truthmaking needs states of affairs, to unite particulars with tropes or universals.

Source

David M. Armstrong (Truth and Truthmakers [2004], 04.5)

Book Reference

Armstrong,D.M.: 'Truth and Truthmakers' [CUP 2004], p.49


A Reaction

Armstrong is the great champion of states of affairs. They seem rather vague to me, and disconcertingly timeless.