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14393 | The totality state is the most plausible truthmaker for negative existential truths [Merricks] |
Full Idea: The claim that the totality state is the sole truthmaker for negative existential truths emerges as the best position for a truthmaker theorist. | |
From: Trenton Merricks (Truth and Ontology [2007], 3.III) |
16045 | General facts supervene on particular facts, but cannot be inferred from them [Russell, by Bennett,K] |
Full Idea: Russell noted that you cannot arrive at general facts by inference from numerous particular facts, ..but general facts logically supervene on particular ones. So the general facts supervene, but are not entailed. | |
From: report of Bertrand Russell (On Relations of Universals and Particulars [1911]) by Karen Bennett - Supervenience §3.2 | |
A reaction: The belief that the general facts supervene on the particular ones then seems to be more a matter of faith than of fact. Or maybe it is analytic, depending on what we understand by 'general'. Universal, or generalised? |