Truthmakers (are Indexed Combinations)
Author(s) -
Wolfgang Freitag
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
studia philosophica estonica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2228-110X
pISSN - 1736-5899
DOI - 10.12697/spe.2008.1.2.06
Subject(s) - exemplification , construct (python library) , epistemology , mathematics , identity (music) , yield (engineering) , metaphysics , mathematical economics , pure mathematics , computer science , philosophy , physics , aesthetics , thermodynamics , programming language
My aim is to show that theories which try to construct truthmakers out of objects and properties/relations alone are not tenable: The Frege–Wittgenstein idea of incompleteness does not yield truthmakers. Armstrong’s theory of partial identity and the theory of moments, i.e., of non-transferable properties, yield truthmakers, but these theories have counter-intuitive consequences. I conclude that the notion of a truthmaker makes ontological demands beyond objects and properties/relations and propose that truthmakers are exemplification relations which are necessarily tied to objects and properties/relations.
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