Book contents
- A Theory of Truthmaking
- A Theory of Truthmaking
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I Foundations
- Chapter 1 A Methodology for Truthmaking
- Chapter 2 Truthmaking, Accounting, and Explanation
- Chapter 3 The Truthmaking Relation
- Chapter 4 Truthmaker Maximalism and the Scope of Truthmaking
- Chapter 5 A Catalog of Objections
- Part II Applications
- Part III Metaphysics
- Conclusion
- References
- Index
Chapter 3 - The Truthmaking Relation
from Part I - Foundations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 April 2020
- A Theory of Truthmaking
- A Theory of Truthmaking
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I Foundations
- Chapter 1 A Methodology for Truthmaking
- Chapter 2 Truthmaking, Accounting, and Explanation
- Chapter 3 The Truthmaking Relation
- Chapter 4 Truthmaker Maximalism and the Scope of Truthmaking
- Chapter 5 A Catalog of Objections
- Part II Applications
- Part III Metaphysics
- Conclusion
- References
- Index
Summary
This chapter defends the unorthodox view that metaphysical necessitation is both necessary and sufficient for truthmaking. For x to be a truthmaker for y is for it to be metaphysically necessary that if x exists, then y is true. The necessity of necessitation is defended by considering the truthmakers for truths about truthmaking: facts of the form ‘x is a truthmaker for y’. The sufficiency of necessitation is defended by addressing the many counterexamples that been offered against it (notably those involving necessary truths), and showing how they pose no problem for truthmaking when understood as the task of ontological accounting. It is also shown how this view avoids the triviality challenge posed by Greg Restall.
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- A Theory of TruthmakingMetaphysics, Ontology, and Reality, pp. 50 - 70Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020