Full Idea
If there are such things as truthmakers (facts), they are not to be found in the world. As Strawson would say to Austin: there is the cat, there is the mat, but where in the world is the fact that the cat is on the mat?
Gist of Idea
If facts are the truthmakers, they are not in the world
Source
George Engelbretsen (Trees, Terms and Truth [2005], 4)
Book Reference
'The Old New Logic', ed/tr. Oderberg,David S. [MIT 2005], p.41
A Reaction
He cites Strawson, Quine and Davidson for this point.