Ideas from 'Truth-making and Correspondence' by Marian David [2009], by Theme Structure

[found in 'Truth and Truth-Making' (ed/tr Lowe,E.J./Rami,A.) [Acumen 2009,978-1-84465-145-0]].

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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

3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 2. Truthmaker Relation

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Examples show that truth-making is just non-symmetric, not asymmetric

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

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

3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 5. What Makes Truths / b. Objects make truths

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What matters is truth-making (not truth-makers)

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

3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 1. Correspondence Truth

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Correspondence theory likes ideal languages, that reveal the structure of propositions

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

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