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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Truthmaker"”.
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Truthmaker and negation: Investigations of nonbeing, negative events, and counterfactual conditionals
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2025-12-01
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All The Small Things: Contingent Mereological Nihilism
… my version of mereological nihilism, Minimal Truthmaker Nihilism (MTN). According to MTN, only the minimal truthmakers for all true sentences are included in the correct ontology and composite objects are not among the minimal truthmakers. I argue that the proponent of MTN can claim ‘hands …
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Explanation in metaphysics.
… issues, including ontological commitment and truthmaker theory. In the third and fourth chapters, I apply the work done in the first two chapters to a pair of important metaphysical arguments that crucially employ infinite regresses of ontological explanations – Bradley's Regress and …
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The Proscriptive Principle and Logics of Analytic Implication
… resolve some ambiguities in Greg Restall’s own truthmaker semantics.</li> <li>In Chapter 4, we consider interpretations of disjunction that accord with the characteristic failure of <strong>Addition</strong> in which the evaluation of a disjunction A ∨ B requires not only the truth of one …
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Modeling temporal perception
… them. Since his view is motivated by a causal truthmaker principle for grounding knowledge, it also holds that perceptual beliefs about temporal features must be caused by the features themselves in order to count as knowledge. Given these theoretical commitments, there is a puzzle concerning …
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The Primitive Thesis: Defending a Davidsonian Conception of Truth
In this dissertation I defend the claim, long held by Donald Davidson, that truth is a primitive concept that cannot be correctly or informatively defined in terms of more basic concepts. To this end I articulate the history of the primitive thesis in the 20th century, working through early Moore, …