• Truthmaker theory is "the branch of metaphysics that explores the relationships between what is true and what exists". The basic intuition behind truthmaker...
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  • 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...
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  • Actualism (category Metaphysical theories)
    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...
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  • "Pluralist Theories of Truth" "Truthmaker Theory" "Prosentential Theory of Truth" Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Truth Coherence theory of truth Correspondence...
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  • Phenomenalism (category Theory of mind)
    phenomenalism comes from truthmaker theory. Truthmaker theorists hold that the truth depends on reality. In the terms of truthmaker theory: a truthbearer (e...
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  • include the Socratic method, theory selection based on theoretical virtues, methodological naturalism, truthmaker theory, and the genealogical method...
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    and truthmaker. The possibility of one to many relations between truths and truthmakers is a feature that Armstrong believes allows truthmaker theory to...
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    is the truthmaker of the sentence. Truthmaker theory states there is a close relationship between truth and existence; there exists a truthmaker for every...
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    moderate view can be combined with a version of truthmaker theory. As Yann says, "The minimal truthmaker requirement can then be assumed without any contradiction...
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  • Philosophical presentism (category Theory of relativity)
    retrieved 2022-02-06 Asay, Jamin. "Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy". Truthmaker Theory. Balashov, Y; Janssen, M (2002), "Presentism and Relativity" (PDF)...
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  • 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...
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    World of States of Affairs. Cambridge University Press. Asay, Jamin. "Truthmaker Theory". Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Retrieved 9 January 2021. Honderich...
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  • inexpressible generalization. Coherentism Confirmation holism Truth Truth theory Truthmaker theory Alexis Burgess, Brett Sherman (eds.), Metasemantics: New Essays...
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    and Simons the paper "Truth-Makers". This paper helped to launch truthmaker theory, a still active research program at the borderlines of logic, semantics...
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  • Pragmaticism Pragmatic maxim Reproducibility Scientific method Testability Truthmaker Verificationism Hanna and Harrison (2004), ch. 1, p. 21, quotation: "The...
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    Why there is anything at all (category Metaphysical theories)
    Bibcode:2008FoPh...38..101T. doi:10.1007/s10701-007-9186-9. S2CID 9890455. Theories of the events at the earliest stages of universes existence continue to...
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  • Aesthetic absolutism (category Theories of aesthetics)
    underlying principle behind these truth judgements can be derived from the truthmaker theory, in that the ontological grounding for relations between objects within...
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    Contemporary philosophy Region Western philosophy School Analytic philosophy Doctoral advisor Wolfe Mays Main interests Ontology Notable ideas Truthmaker theory...
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    argument that depends on a criterion of ontological commitment based on truthmaker theory. Baker identifies Field (1989) as originating this form of the argument...
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  • 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...
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  • mistake has been made." In 2013, Fine held the Gödel Lecture, titled Truthmaker semantics. Worlds, Times, and Selves (with A. N. Prior). University of...
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  • (1984). According to this theory, it is tropes — including both individual qualities and events — that serve as the truthmakers for true atomic sentences...
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  • Time Transcendence (philosophy) Transcendentals Truth Truth-value link Truthmaker Talk:Unity/concept Universal (metaphysics) Universalizability Unobservable...
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  • Multi-valued logic Propositional logic Relativism Supervaluationism Truthbearer Truthmaker Truth-value link Quantum logic Perspectivism True and false Lou Goble...
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    truthmakers of temporal statements about the past, present, and future. Metaphysicians employ a variety of methods to arrive at metaphysical theories...
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  • correspondence theory proposed by Thomas Aquinas. He argues that there is one reality rooted in God himself, who is the ultimate truthmaker. God, according...
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    Quietism (philosophy) (category Metaphysical theories)
    resist the distinction between truth bearers and truthmakers as leading to a correspondence theory of truth. Rather they claim that such a distinction...
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  • -- Truthmaker -- Type (model theory) -- Type theory -- Type–token distinction -- Ultrafinitism -- Unification (computer science) -- Unifying theories in...
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    Knight, Computable structure theory and formulas of special forms The Twenty-Fourth Annual Gödel Lecture 2013 Kit Fine, Truthmaker sematics The Twenty-Third...
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  • something there that makes them true: their truthmakers. The existential quantifiers act as a guide to truthmakers. Another approach to answering existence-questions...
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