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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Truthmakers."”.
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Ideology, Truthmaking and Fundamentality
… over another.</p> <p>In chapter 3 I argue that truthmakers do not necessitate the truths they make true. They either grounds their truths or make true their truths and nothing else can be said about the connection between truth and reality. It is to be taken as primitive that truthmakers make …
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All The Small Things: Contingent Mereological 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 exist’ is true, even though hands don’t really exist. In chapter …
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Explanation in metaphysics.
One of the primary tasks of the philosopher is to explain what it is for something to be the case – what it is for one event (substance, fact) to cause another, what it is for an action to be obligatory, what it is for an object to bear a property, what it is for a proposition to be true …