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Robin Stenwall

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Against Truthmaker Necessitarianism

Author

  • Robin Stenwall

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