Not every truth could have a truthmaker

Sets Which Do Not Have Subsets of Every Higher Degree

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Minimizing leakage: What if every gate could have its individual threshold voltage?

Designers aim at fast but low-power consuming integrated circuits. Since high processing speed always comes with high energy demands, the literature provides several ways to reduce a circuit’s power dissipation. Even though technologically not possible today, this paper hypothesizes that the design would allow for choosing a gate’s from a continuous domain in order to explore options for future...

Truthmaker commitments

On the truthmaker view of ontological commitment [Heil (From an ontological point of view, 2003); Armstrong (Truth and truthmakers, 2004); Cameron (Philosophical Studies, 2008)], a theory is committed to the entities needed in the world for the theory to be made true. I argue that this view puts truthmaking to the wrong task. None of the leading accounts of truthmaking—via necessitation, superv...

Truthmaker Explanations

This paper is a fresh attempt to articulate the role of a theory of truthmakers. We argue that truthmaker theory constitutes a cornerstone of good methodology in metaphysics, but that a conflation of truthmaker theory with the theory of truth has been responsible for certain excesses associated with truthmaker-based approaches in the recent literature. We show that truthmaker theory retains its...

Could Morality Have