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| 15549 | If it were true that nothing at all existed, would that have a truthmaker? |
| Full Idea: If there was absolutely nothing at all, then it would have been true that there was nothing. Would there have been a truthmaker for this truth? | |||
| From: David Lewis (A world of truthmakers? [1998], p.220) | |||
| A reaction: This is a problem for Lewis's own claim that 'truth supervenes on being', as well as the more restricted truthmakers invoked by Armstrong. |