Full Idea
If 'truth supervenes on being' aims to articulate the idea that truth depends on being, it must say more than that truth supervenes on being.
Gist of Idea
If truth supervenes on being, that won't explain why truth depends on being
Source
Trenton Merricks (Truth and Ontology [2007], 4.VI)
Book Reference
Merricks,Trenton: 'Truth and Ontology' [OUP 2007], p.88
A Reaction
This is a perennial problem with supervenience accounts, such as the supervenience of beauty on the object, or of mind on brain.