Is there a dilemma for the truthmaker non-maximalist?
pp. 3649-3659
Résumé
Mark Jago has presented a dilemma for truthmaker non-maximalism—the thesis that some but not all truths require truthmakers. The dilemma arises because some truths that do not require truthmakers by the non-maximalist’s lights (e.g., that Santa Claus does not exist) are necessitated by truths that do (e.g., that Barack Obama knows that Santa Claus does not exist). According to Jago, the non-maximalist can supply a truthmaker for such a truth only by conceding the primary motivation for the view: that it allows one to avoid positing strange ‘negative’ entities without adopting a non-standard account of the necessary features of ordinary things. In this paper, I sketch out and defend two plausible non-maximalist proposals that evade Jago’s dilemma.
Détails de la publication
Publié dans:
(2014) Synthese 191 (15).
Pages: 3649-3659
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-014-0485-3
Citation complète:
Skiles Alexander, 2014, Is there a dilemma for the truthmaker non-maximalist? Synthese 191 (15), 3649-3659. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-014-0485-3.