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  • noun Plural form of truthmaker.

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  • All advocates of truthmaker theory maintain that the truthmaking relation is not one-one but many-many: some truths are made true by more than one truthmaker; some truthmakers make true more than one truth.

    The Correspondence Theory of Truth David, Marian 2009

  • Advocates tend to treat truthmaker theory primarily as a guide to ontology, asking: To entities of what ontological categories are we committed as truthmakers of the propositions we accept as true?

    The Correspondence Theory of Truth David, Marian 2009

  • Logical atomism aims at getting by without logically complex truthmakers by restricting definitions like (1) or (2) to atomic truthbearers and accounting for the truth-values of molecular truthbearers recursively in terms of their logical structure and atomic truthmakers (atomic facts, events, objects-plus-tropes).

    The Correspondence Theory of Truth David, Marian 2009

  • It is hard to see how a symmetric relation could be a species (or precisification) of an asymmetric or non-symmetric relation (cf. David 2009.) (iv) Talk of truthmaking and truthmakers is frequently employed during informal discussions involving truth but tends to be dropped when a more formal or official formulation of a theory of truth is produced

    The Correspondence Theory of Truth David, Marian 2009

  • More radical modifications of the correspondence theory push the recursive strategy even further, entirely discarding definitions like (1) or (2), and hence the need for atomic truthmakers, by going, as it were,

    The Correspondence Theory of Truth David, Marian 2009

  • According to one defense, facts are needed because mere objects are not sufficiently articulated to serve as truthmakers.

    The Correspondence Theory of Truth David, Marian 2009

  • Talk of truthmakers serves a function similar, but correlative, to talk of truthbearers.

    The Correspondence Theory of Truth David, Marian 2009

  • F2 favor this approach: not even atomic truthbearers are assigned any matching truthmakers.

    The Correspondence Theory of Truth David, Marian 2009

  • It is convenient to talk of truthmakers whenever one wants to stay neutral between these choices.

    The Correspondence Theory of Truth David, Marian 2009

  • This recursive strategy could be pursued with the aim to reject the truthmaker principle: not all truths have truthmakers, only atomic truths have truthmakers (here understood as corresponding facts).

    The Correspondence Theory of Truth David, Marian 2009

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