Full Idea
Truthmaking is a paradigmatic internal relation: if you have a truthbearer, a representation, and you have the world as the truthbearer represents it as being, you have truthmaking, you have the truthbearer's being true.
Gist of Idea
Truthmaking is a clear example of an internal relation
Source
John Heil (Relations [2009], 'Causal')
Book Reference
'Routledge Companion to Metaphysics', ed/tr. Le Poidevin/Simons etc [Routledge 2012], p.319
A Reaction
It is nice to have an example of an internal relation other than numbers, and closer to the concrete world. Is the relation between the world and facts about the world the same thing, or another example?
Related Idea
Idea 21348 In the case of 5 and 6, their relational truthmaker is just the numbers [Heil]