Single Idea 14480

[catalogued under 3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 12. Rejecting Truthmakers]

Full Idea

It is a venerable view that analytic claims do not require truth-makers, as they place no demands on the world, but this claim has often been challenged.

Gist of Idea

Maybe analytic truths do not require truth-makers, as they place no demands on the world

Source

Amie L. Thomasson (Ordinary Objects [2007], 03.4)

Book Reference

Thomasson,Amie L.: 'Ordinary Objects' [OUP 2010], p.68


A Reaction

She offers two challenges (bottom p.68), but I would have thought that the best response is that the meanings of the words themselves constitute truthmakers - perhaps via the essence of each word, as Fine suggests.