Full Idea
If there was absolutely nothing at all, then it would have been true that there was nothing. Would there have been a truthmaker for this truth?
Gist of Idea
If it were true that nothing at all existed, would that have a truthmaker?
Source
David Lewis (A world of truthmakers? [1998], p.220)
Book Reference
Lewis,David: 'Papers in Metaphysics and Epistemology' [CUP 1999], p.220
A Reaction
This is a problem for Lewis's own claim that 'truth supervenes on being', as well as the more restricted truthmakers invoked by Armstrong.