On Some Alleged Truthmakers for Negatives

Thought: A Journal of Philosophy 1 (4):301-308 (2012)
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Abstract

This article considers three recent attempts by David Armstrong, Ross Cameron, and Jonathan Schaffer to provide truthmakers for negative existential truths. It is argued that none of the proposed truthmakers are up to the task of making any negative existential truth true and, it will turn out, for the same reason

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On the Plurality of Worlds.David Lewis - 1986 - Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell.
A World of States of Affairs.D. M. Armstrong - 1997 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
Essence and modality.Kit Fine - 1994 - Philosophical Perspectives 8 (Logic and Language):1-16.
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Truth and truthmakers.D. M. Armstrong - 2004 - New York: Cambridge University Press.

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