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[from 'Introduction: Truth and Truth-Making' by Adolph Rami, in 3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 3. Truthmaker Maximalism ]

Full Idea

The main full-blooded truth-maker principle is that x is true iff there is a y that is its truth-maker. This implies the principles that if x is true x has a truth-maker, and the principle that if x has a truth-maker then x is true.

Gist of Idea

Central idea: truths need truthmakers; and possibly all truths have them, and makers entail truths

Source

Adolph Rami (Introduction: Truth and Truth-Making [2009], 03)

Book Reference

'Truth and Truth-Making', ed/tr. Lowe,E.J./Rami,A. [Acumen 2009], p.3


A Reaction

[compressed] Rami calls the second principle 'maximalism' and the third principle 'purism'. To reject maximalism is to hold a more restricted version of truth-makers. That is, the claim is that lots of truths have truth-makers.