Robin Stenwall
Senior lecturer
Against Truthmaker Necessitarianism
Author
Summary, in English
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.
Department/s
- Theoretical Philosophy
Publishing year
2016
Language
English
Pages
37-54
Publication/Series
Logique et Analyse
Volume
59
Issue
233
Document type
Journal article
Publisher
Centre national belge de recherche de logique
Topic
- Philosophy
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 0024-5836