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Pawl, Timothy. "Traditional Christian Theism and Truthmaker Maximalism." European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 4, no. 1 (2012): 197–218. http://dx.doi.org/10.24204/ejpr.v4i1.314.

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I argue that Traditional Christian Theism is inconsistent with the conjunction of Truthmaker Necessitation and Truthmaker Maximalism, the thesis that all truths have truthmakers. Though this original formulation requires extensive revision, the gist of the argument is as follows. Suppose for reductio Traditional Christian Theism and the sort of Truthmaker Theory that embraces Truthmaker Maximalism are both true. By Traditional Christian Theism, there is a world in which God, and only God, exists. There are no animals in such a world. Thus, it is true in such a world that there are no zebras. T

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Rychter, Pablo. "Truthmaker Theory without Truthmakers." Ratio 27, no. 3 (2013): 276–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/rati.12042.

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Rowe, David. "Truthmaker Theory and Naturalism." Metaphysica 19, no. 2 (2018): 225–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/mp-2018-0013.

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Abstract This paper argues that there is a heretofore unresolved tension between truthmaker-style metaphysics and a plausible version of Naturalism. At the turn of the century, George Molnar proposed four prima facie plausible principles for a realist metaphysics in order to expose truthmaker theory’s incapacity to find truthmakers for negative truths. I marshal the current plethora of attempted solutions to the problem into a crisp trilemma. Those who solve it claim that Molnar’s tetrad is consistent; those who dissolve it do away with the requirement that every truth needs a truthmaker; and

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Loss, Roberto. "How the Block Grows." American Philosophical Quarterly 59, no. 4 (2022): 377–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/21521123.59.4.04.

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Abstract I argue that the growing-block theory of time and truthmaker maximalism jointly entail that some truthmakers undergo mereological change as time passes. Central to my argument is a grounding-based account of what I call the “purely incremental” nature of the growing-block theory of time. As I will show, the argument presented in this paper suggests that growing-block theorists endorsing truthmaker maximalism have reasons to take composition to be restricted and the “block” of reality to literally grow as time goes by.

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Jago, Mark. "Truthmaker Semantics for Relevant Logic." Journal of Philosophical Logic 49, no. 4 (2020): 681–702. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10992-019-09533-9.

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AbstractI develop and defend a truthmaker semantics for the relevant logic R. The approach begins with a simple philosophical idea and develops it in various directions, so as to build a technically adequate relevant semantics. The central philosophical idea is that truths are true in virtue of specific states. Developing the idea formally results in a semantics on which truthmakers are relevant to what they make true. A very natural notion of conditionality is added, giving us relevant implication. I then investigate ways to add conjunction, disjunction, and negation; and I discuss how to jus

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Bondar, Oleh. "A Short Argument against Truthmaker Maximalism." Metaphysica 23, no. 1 (2021): 27–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/mp-2021-0017.

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Abstract Mark Jago has introduced a short Fitch-style argument for truthmaker maximalism – the thesis that every truth has a truthmaker. In response to Jago, Trueman argues that the Fitch-style reasoning allows us to prove the opposite – no truth has a truthmaker. In the article, we consider the debates between Jago’s truthmaker maximalism and Trueman’s truthmaker nihilism. Also, we introduce a short Grim-style argument against Jago’s truthmaker maximalism.

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Fox, John F. "Truthmaker." Australasian Journal of Philosophy 65, no. 2 (1987): 188–207. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00048408712342871.

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Brendel, Elke. "Truthmaker maximalism and the truthmaker paradox." Synthese 197, no. 4 (2018): 1647–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11229-018-01980-2.

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Schipper, Arthur. "An Abductive Defence of Truthmaker Realism." Philosophy 99, no. 4 (2024): 563–95. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0031819124000238.

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AbstractThis paper presents an abductive argument for realism and truthmaker realism as follows. A metaphysical theory is better if it ontologically accounts for truths better than its rivals (the Abductive Principle). Truthmaker realism gives us a better ontological account for truths than its antirealist truthmaker rivals (Abductive Step). So, truthmaker realism is better than antirealist rivals. It presents the truthmaker project as an abductive project which asks us what accounts best ontologically for our truths. Antirealisms, especially idealisms, fail against their realist rivals on var

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Asay, Jamin. "Truthmakers against Correspondence." Grazer Philosophische Studien 97, no. 2 (2020): 271–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18756735-000092.

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Many philosophers think that truthmaker theory offers a correspondence theory of truth. Despite the similarities, however, this identification cannot be correct. Truthmaker theory offers no theory of truth, nor can it be employed to offer an acceptable substantive theory of truth. Instead, truthmaker theory takes truth for granted. Though truthmaker theory is not a correspondence theory, it shares with it the same motivational basis—that truth is worldly—and accounts for what is pre-theoretically compelling about correspondence theories. As a result, those at all attracted to correspondence th

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Byerly, Ryan. "Truthmaker Trinitarianism." TheoLogica: An International Journal for Philosophy of Religion and Philosophical Theology 3, no. 2 (2019): 77–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.14428/thl.v3i2.14693.

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This paper employs recent developments in the theory of truthmakers to offer a novel solution to the most discussed philosophical challenge presented by the Christian doctrine of the Trinity. According to the view developed, the Father, Son, and Spirit each serve as the only substantial constituent of equally minimal truthmakers for claims about God. Because they do, there is a clear and robust sense in which each is a substance that “is” God as much as anything is, while the three remain distinct from each other. The view is shown to hold certain prima facie advantages over rival extant appro

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Smith, Barry. "Truthmaker realism." Australasian Journal of Philosophy 77, no. 3 (1999): 274–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00048409912349041.

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Schaffer, Jonathan. "Truthmaker commitments." Philosophical Studies 141, no. 1 (2008): 7–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11098-008-9260-y.

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Jago, Mark. "The cost of truthmaker maximalism." Canadian Journal of Philosophy 43, no. 4 (2013): 460–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00455091.2013.849059.

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According to truthmaker theory, particular truths are true in virtue of the existence of particular entities. Truthmaker maximalism holds that this is so for all truths. Negative existential and other ‘negative’ truths threaten the position. Despite this, maximalism is an appealing thesis for truthmaker theorists. This motivates interest in parsimonious maximalist theories, which do not posit extra entities for truthmaker duty. Such theories have been offered by David Lewis and Gideon Rosen, Ross Cameron, and Jonathan Schaffer. However, it will be argued here that these theories cannot be sust

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Moltmann, Friederike. "Truthmaker semantics for natural language: Attitude verbs, modals, and intensional transitive verbs." Theoretical Linguistics 46, no. 3-4 (2020): 159–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/tl-2020-0010.

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Abstract This paper gives an outline of truthmaker semantics for natural language against the background of standard possible-worlds semantics. It develops a truthmaker semantics for attitude reports and deontic modals based on an ontology of attitudinal and modal objects and on a semantic function of clauses as predicates of such objects. The semantics is applied to factive verbs and response-stance verbs as well as to cases of modal concord. The paper also presents new motivations for ‘object-based truthmaker semantics’ from intensional transitive verbs such as need, look for, own, and buy a

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Rodriguez-Pereyra, G. "Truthmaker Maximalism defended." Analysis 66, no. 3 (2006): 260–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/analys/66.3.260.

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Baron, Sam. "Tensed Truthmaker Theory." Erkenntnis 80, no. 5 (2015): 923–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10670-014-9689-7.

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Perrine, Timothy. "Undermining truthmaker theory." Synthese 192, no. 1 (2014): 185–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11229-014-0558-3.

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Zamani, Mohsen. "Truthmaking, Supervenience, and Reduction." Grazer Philosophische Studien 95, no. 4 (2018): 520–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18756735-000055.

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There are two main theories of ontological commitment: the quantifier view, and the truthmaker view. Since there are some truths that apparently commit us to certain entities, but actually do not, any ontological commitment theory must also contain an ontological reduction theory. Advocates of the quantifier view propose the paraphrasing method of reduction, while some advocates of the truthmaker view propose the supervenience method. In this paper, after a brief discussion of the quantifier view, the author proposes a modified version of truthmaker-based ontology, and shows that a plausible a

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FINE, KIT, and MARK JAGO. "LOGIC FOR EXACT ENTAILMENT." Review of Symbolic Logic 12, no. 3 (2019): 536–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1755020318000151.

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AbstractAn exact truthmaker for A is a state which, as well as guaranteeing A’s truth, is wholly relevant to it. States with parts irrelevant to whether A is true do not count as exact truthmakers for A. Giving semantics in this way produces a very unusual consequence relation, on which conjunctions do not entail their conjuncts. This feature makes the resulting logic highly unusual. In this paper, we set out formal semantics for exact truthmaking and characterise the resulting notion of entailment, showing that it is compact and decidable. We then investigate the effect of various restriction

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Clavier, Paul. "God as Ultimate Truthmaker." European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 10, no. 1 (2018): 67–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.24204/ejpr.v10i1.1908.

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Theories of truthmaking have been introduced quite recently in epistemology. Having little to do with truth serums, or truths drugs, their concern is to define truth in terms of a certain relation between truthbearers and truthmakers. Those theories make an attempt to remedy what is supposed to be lacking in classical theories of truth, especially in Alfred Tarski’s semantic theory.

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YUKIMOTO, Taiji, and Tora KOYAMA. "Truthmaker Monism." Annals of the Japan Association for Philosophy of Science 29 (2020): 61–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.4288/jafpos.29.0_61.

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KOYAMA, Tora. "Presentism, Tense, and Truthmaker." Journal of the Japan Association for Philosophy of Science 34, no. 2 (2007): 49–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.4288/kisoron1954.34.49.

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Saenz, Noël B. "Against Divine Truthmaker Simplicity." Faith and Philosophy 31, no. 4 (2014): 460–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/faithphil2014121725.

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Barrio, E., and G. Rodriguez-Pereyra. "Truthmaker Maximalism defended again." Analysis 75, no. 1 (2014): 3–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/analys/anu121.

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Baron, Sam. "A Truthmaker Indispensability Argument." Synthese 190, no. 12 (2011): 2413–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11229-011-9989-2.

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Simpson, Matthew. "Defending Truthmaker Non‐Maximalism." Thought: A Journal of Philosophy 3, no. 4 (2014): 288–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/tht3.144.

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Khodadadi, Hossein. "Ibn Sina, Divine Simplicity and the Problem of Ineffability." International Journal of Indonesian Philosophy & Theology 4, no. 1 (2023): 29–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.47043/ijipth.v4i1.44.

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This paper explores applying the truthmaker theory to address the challenge of divine simplicity and its alignment with Ibn Sina’s understanding of divine attributes. It proposes that God’s essence enables the predication of these attributes, eliminating the need for constituent properties. By adopting this approach, meaningful statements about God can be expressed without delving into ontological intricacies. The truthmaker account establishes a direct connection between God’s necessary existence and the truthfulness of statements about Him, overcoming the barrier of ineffability. It offers a

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EMBRY, BRIAN. "Truth and Truthmakers in Early Modern Scholasticism." Journal of the American Philosophical Association 1, no. 2 (2015): 196–216. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/apa.2014.28.

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ABSTRACT:Seventeenth-century Iberian and Italian Scholastics had a concept of a truthmaker (verificativum) similar to that found in contemporary metaphysical debates. I argue that the seventeenth-century notion of a truthmaker can be illuminated by a prevalent seventeenth-century theory of truth according to which the truth of a proposition is the mereological sum of that proposition and its intentional object. I explain this theory of truth and then spell out the account of truthmaking it entails.

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Cevolani, Gustavo. "An invitation to truthmaker theory." Metascience 30, no. 2 (2021): 235–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11016-021-00642-3.

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Smith, B. "Truthmaker Realism: Response to Gregory." Australasian Journal of Philosophy 80, no. 2 (2002): 231–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/724051034.

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Jago, M. "The Truthmaker Non-Maximalist's Dilemma." Mind 121, no. 484 (2012): 903–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mind/fzs124.

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Dodd, Julian. "Negative truths and truthmaker principles." Synthese 156, no. 2 (2007): 383–401. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11229-006-0007-z.

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Zolghadr, Behnam. "Aḥwāl, Divine Simplicity, and Truthmakers". European journal of analytic philosophy 18, № 2 (2022): SI6–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.31820/ejap.18.2.7.

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This paper is a comparative study between Brower’s solution to the problem of divine simplicity and that of Abū Hāšim al-Ǧubbāī (d. 933). First, I argue that the theory of aḥwāl is a semantic theory rather than a metaphysical one. Then, I present a reconstruction of Abū Hāšim al-Ǧubbāī’s theory of aḥwāl, based on Brower’s truthmaker theory of predication. Then, I show how Abū Hāšim would reply to some of the objections that Saenz raised against Brower’s truthmaker theory of divine simplicity. Later on, I discuss Abū Hāšim’s explanation of the similarities between the properties that God and cr

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Milne, P. "Not every truth has a truthmaker." Analysis 65, no. 3 (2005): 221–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/analys/65.3.221.

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de Sa, D. L., and E. Zardini. "Does this sentence have no truthmaker?" Analysis 66, no. 2 (2006): 154–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/analys/66.2.154.

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Pawl, Timothy. "In Defense of Divine Truthmaker Simplicity." Res Philosophica 96, no. 1 (2019): 63–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.11612/resphil.1754.

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Cameron, Ross P. "How to be a Truthmaker Maximalist." Noûs 42, no. 3 (2008): 410–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0068.2008.00687.x.

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Pawl, Timothy. "Change, Difference, and Orthodox Truthmaker Theory." Australasian Journal of Philosophy 92, no. 3 (2013): 539–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00048402.2013.839726.

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Jago, Mark. "The Problem with Truthmaker-Gap Epistemicism." Thought: A Journal of Philosophy 1, no. 4 (2012): 320–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/tht3.49.

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Faroldi, Federico L. G. "Towards a Logic of Value and Disagreement via Imprecise Measures." Bulletin of the Section of Logic 50, no. 2 (2021): 131–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/0138-0680.2021.07.

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FINE, KIT. "COMPLIANCE AND COMMAND I—CATEGORICAL IMPERATIVES." Review of Symbolic Logic 11, no. 4 (2018): 609–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s175502031700020x.

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AbstractI develop a semantics for imperatives within the truthmaker framework by taking the meaning of an imperative to be given by the actions that are in compliance with or in contravention to the imperative.

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PAGÈS, Joan. "Truthmaking and Supervenience." THEORIA 20, no. 2 (2005): 191–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1387/theoria.572.

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This paper advances a criticism of Parsons' notion of truthmaker grounded on the notion of supervenience. I argue that none of the two naturalinterpretations of Parsons' definition succeeds in accomplishing the several tasks intended by Parsons.

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Da Vee, Dean. "Why truthmaker theory cannot save divine simplicity." International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 90, no. 1 (2021): 43–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11153-021-09789-9.

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Giordani, Alessandro. "The truthmaker solution to the gettier problems." EPISTEMOLOGIA, no. 1 (September 2015): 68–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.3280/epis2015-001005.

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Akiba, Takeshi. "Why Should the Truthmaker Principle Be Restricted?" Kagaku tetsugaku 44, no. 2 (2011): 2_115–2_134. http://dx.doi.org/10.4216/jpssj.44.2_115.

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Kitamura, Naoaki. "Truthmaker Theory as a Method in Ontology." Kagaku tetsugaku 47, no. 1 (2014): 1–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.4216/jpssj.47.1_1.

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Beebe, James R. "Brower and Saenz on Divine Truthmaker Simplicity." Faith and Philosophy 35, no. 4 (2018): 473–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/faithphil20181023114.

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Milne, P. "Not every truth has a truthmaker II." Analysis 73, no. 3 (2013): 473–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/analys/ant037.

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Cameron, Ross P. "From Humean Truthmaker Theory to Priority Monism1." Noûs 44, no. 1 (2010): 178–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0068.2009.00736.x.

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