Truthmaker theory is "the branch of metaphysics that explores the relationships between what is true and what exists". The basic intuition behind truthmaker...

that are free of such commitments. Actualism has been challenged by truthmaker theory to explain how truths about what is possible or necessary depend on...

that water freezes at 0 °C. In this example, the freezing-fact is the truthmaker of the freezing-belief. Expressed in terms of grounding: the truth of...

"Pluralist Theories of Truth" "Truthmaker Theory" "Prosentential Theory of Truth" Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Truth Coherence theory of truth Correspondence...

phenomenalism comes from truthmaker theory. Truthmaker theorists hold that the truth depends on reality. In the terms of truthmaker theory: a truthbearer (e...

is the truthmaker of the sentence. Truthmaker theory states there is a close relationship between truth and existence; there exists a truthmaker for every...

and truthmaker. The possibility of one to many relations between truths and truthmakers is a feature that Armstrong believes allows truthmaker theory to...

or reality Truth theory – Being in accord with fact or realityPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets Truthmaker theory – Branch of metaphysics...

uses is to mean “truthmakes” in the truthmaker theory of truth. It is also used to mean “forces” in the set theory method of forcing. ⟡ U+27E1 white concave-sided...

evaluate philosophical theories. In particular, this concerns theories that accept certain truths but are unable to provide their truthmaker. Such theorists...

and Simons the paper "Truth-Makers". This paper helped to launch truthmaker theory, a still active research program at the borderlines of logic, semantics...

invoked in truthmaker theory, where it is used to formalize the relationship between truthbearers (propositions, beliefs, or sentences) and truthmakers (facts...

for the rest of God's intrinsic and essential attributes." Another truthmaker theory posits a moderate version of divine simplicity between absolute divine...

Pragmaticism Pragmatic maxim Reproducibility Scientific method Testability Truthmaker Verificationism Hanna and Harrison (2004), ch. 1, p. 21, quotation: "The...

argument that depends on a criterion of ontological commitment based on truthmaker theory. Baker identifies Field (1989) as originating this form of the argument...

Rather than Nothing)" (PDF). Harvard University. Stanowski, Mariusz (2021). Theory and Practice of Contrast Integrating Science, Art and Philosophy. Taylor&Francis...

ISBN 978-90-247-3427-6 Mind, Meaning and Metaphysics: The Philosophy and Theory of Language of Anton Marty, Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1990. ISBN 978-0-7923-0578-1...

Era Contemporary philosophy Region Western philosophy School Analytic philosophy Main interests Ontology Metaphysics Notable ideas Truthmaker theory...

underlying principle behind these truth judgements can be derived from the truthmaker theory, in that the ontological grounding for relations between objects within...

in the truthmakers of temporal statements about the past, present, and future. A closely related topic concerns the nature of truth. Theories of truth...

commitment: at best, the search for the truthmakers of our theory will tell us what is "fundamental", but not what our theory is ontologically committed to, and...

(1984). According to this theory, it is tropes — including both individual qualities and events — that serve as the truthmakers for true atomic sentences...

one fact, or one true proposition, state of affairs, truth condition, truthmaker, and so on. One version of the argument (Perry 1996) proceeds as follows...

mistake has been made." In 2013, Fine held the Gödel Lecture, titled Truthmaker semantics. Worlds, Times, and Selves (with A. N. Prior). University of...

resist the distinction between truth bearers and truthmakers as leading to a correspondence theory of truth. Rather they claim that such a distinction...

something there that makes them true: their truthmakers. The existential quantifiers act as a guide to truthmakers. Another approach to answering existence-questions...

States of affairs that correspond to reality are called facts. Facts are truthmakers of statements, meaning that whether a statement is true or false depends...

Knight, Computable structure theory and formulas of special forms The Twenty-Fourth Annual Gödel Lecture 2013 Kit Fine, Truthmaker sematics The Twenty-Third...

meaning of life to imply anything other than its own literal meaning. Truthmakers are entities that make a proposition true. For example, a dog being spotted...

Relativism Self-reference Supervaluationism True and false Truthbearer Truthmaker Truth-value link Lou Goble (2001). The Blackwell guide to philosophical...