Truthmakers and the groundedness of truth

Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 108 (1pt2):177-196 (2008)
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Truthmaker theorists claim that for every truth, there is something in virtue of which it is true—or, more cautiously, that for every truth in some specified class of truths, there is something in virtue of which it is true. I argue that it is hard to see how the thought that truth is grounded in reality lends any support to truthmaker theory.

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10.1111/j.1467-9264.2008.00242.x

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