Single Idea 14400

[catalogued under 3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 5. What Makes Truths / d. Being makes truths]

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.