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Truthmaker necessitarianism and maximalism

Year: 2005

Type: article

Abstract: In this paper I examine two principles of orthodox truthmaker theory: truthmaker maximalism - the doctrine that every (contingent) truth has a truthmaker, and truthmaker necessitarianism - the doctrine that the existence of a truthmaker necessitates the truth of any proposition which it in fact makes true. I argue that maximalism should be rejected and that once it is we only have reason to hold a restricted form of necessitarianism.

Source: White Rose Research Online (University of Leeds, The University of Sheffield, University of York)

Author: Ross P. Cameron

Language: French

Topic: Philosophy and Theoretical Science

Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W126793560

FWCI: 1.301

Cites: 3

Cited by: 51

Related to: 10