Against Truthmaker Necessitarianism
(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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- author
- Stenwall, Robin LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2016
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- in
- Logique et Analyse
- volume
- 59
- issue
- 233
- pages
- 37 - 54
- publisher
- Centre national belge de recherche de logique
- external identifiers
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- scopus:84976619900
- wos:000376706300002
- ISSN
- 0024-5836
- DOI
- 10.2143/LEA.233.0.3149530
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 8328c36d-e9a6-4f87-b7f9-ea76d6b16923 (old id 5337054)
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- 2016-04-04 09:09:16
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