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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...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Philosophical Studies
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0031-8116,1573-0883
DOI: 10.1007/s11098-008-9260-y