Truthmaker Realism: Response to Gregory
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1 Truthmaker Realism : Response To
If we want to give an account of the relation between those truths which have truthmakers and those portions of reality which make them true, a good place to start is with the notion of necessitation, which can be defined thus: x necessitates p if and only if: x exists and (that x exists entails that p). It is then tempting to embrace a simple definition of truthmaking along the following lines...
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عنوان ژورنال: Australasian Journal of Philosophy
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0004-8402,1471-6828
DOI: 10.1080/724051034