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Against Truthmaker Necessitarianism

Stenwall, Robin LU (2016) In Logique et Analyse 59(233). p.37-54
Abstract
This paper is an argument against Truthmaker Necessitarianism — the doctrine that the existence of a truthmaker necessitates the truth of the proposition it makes true. Armstrong’s sufficiency argument for necessitarianism is examined and shown to be question begging. It is then argued in detail that truthmaking is a matter of grounding truth and that grounding is a dependency relation that neither entails nor reduces to necessitation.
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Logique et Analyse
volume
59
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233
pages
37 - 54
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Centre national belge de recherche de logique
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  • scopus:84976619900
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ISSN
0024-5836
DOI
10.2143/LEA.233.0.3149530
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English
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