The least discerning and most promiscuous truthmaker

Philosophical Quarterly 60 (239):307 - 324 (2010)
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Abstract

I argue that the one and only truthmaker is the world. This view can be seen as arisingfrom (i) the view that truthmaking is a relation of grounding holding between true propositions and fundamental entities, together with (ii) the view that the world is the one and only fundamental entity. I argue that this view provides an elegant and economical account of the truthmakers, while solving the problem of negative existentials, in a way that proves ontologically revealing

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Jonathan Schaffer
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