Single Idea 15063

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

Full Idea

There is a distinction between worldly and unworldly sentences, between sentences that depend for their truth upon the worldly circumstances and those that do not.

Gist of Idea

Some sentences depend for their truth on worldly circumstances, and others do not

Source

Kit Fine (Necessity and Non-Existence [2005], Intro)

Book Reference

Fine,Kit: 'Modality and Tense' [OUP 2005], p.321


A Reaction

Fine is fishing around in the area between the necessary, the a priori, truthmakers, and truth-conditions. He appears to be attempting a singlehanded reconstruction of the concepts of metaphysics. Is he major, or very marginal?