Full Idea
A fact is an existential characteristic 'of' the domain; it is not something 'in' the domain. To search for truth-making facts in the world is indeed futile.
Gist of Idea
Truthmakers are facts 'of' a domain, not something 'in' the domain
Source
Fred Sommers (Intellectual Autobiography [2005], 'Existence')
Book Reference
'The Old New Logic', ed/tr. Oderberg,David S. [MIT 2005], p.19
A Reaction
Attacking Austin on truth. Helpful. It is hard to see how a physical object has a mysterious power to 'make' a truth. No energy-transfer seems involved in the making. Animals think true thoughts; I suspect that concerns their mental maps of the world.
Related Ideas
Idea 10835 True sentences says the appropriate descriptive thing on the appropriate demonstrative occasion [Austin,JL]
Idea 18902 Correspondence theories can't tell you what truths correspond to [Davidson]