Switch to: Citations

References in:

Truthmaker maximalism defended

Analysis 66 (3):260–264 (2006)

Add references

You must login to add references.
  1. Not every truth has a truthmaker.Peter Milne - 2005 - Analysis 65 (3):221–224.
    First paragraph: Truthmaker theory maintains that for every truth there is something, some thing, some entity, that makes it true. Balking at the prospect that logical truths are made true by any particular thing, a consequence that may in fact be hard to avoid (see Restall 1996, Read 2000), this principle of truthmaking is sometimes restricted to (logically) contingent truths. I aim to show that even in its restricted form, the principle is provably false.
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   34 citations  
  • Does this sentence have no truthmaker?Dan López de Sa & Elia Zardini - 2006 - Analysis 66 (2):154–157.
    Reponse to Peter Milne (2005)'s argument agaist maximalism about truthmaking.
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   12 citations  
  • Why Truthmakers?Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra - 2005 - In Helen Beebee & Julian Dodd (eds.), Truthmakers: the contemporary debate. Oxford University Press. pp. 17-31.
    Consider a certain red rose. The proposition that the rose is red is true because the rose is red. One might say as well that the proposition that the rose is red is made true by the rose’s being red. This, it has been thought, does not commit one to a truthmaker of the proposition that the rose is red. For there is no entity that makes the proposition true. What makes it true is how the rose is, and how (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   136 citations