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Analysis Advance Access published online on October 20, 2009
Analysis, doi:10.1093/analys/anp132
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Orthodox truthmaker theory cannot be defended by cost/benefit analysis

Philip Goff

University of Birmingham
Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
philgoff1@gmail.com

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Orthodox truthmaker theory (OTT) is the view that:

  1. every truth has at least one truthmaker (truthmaker maximalism),
  2. the existence of a truthmaker necessitates the truth of the proposition(s) it is a truthmaker of (truth maker necessitarianism). (Cameron 2008)
In the person of Ross Cameron, OTT has bitten off more than it can chew. Previously, the view was defended by appeals to brute intuition: ‘My hope is that philosophers of realist inclinations will be immediately attracted to the idea that a truth, any truth, should depend for its truth [on] something "outside" it, in virtue of which it is true’ (Armstrong 1997: 123). Cameron (2008), a defender of OTT, has recently offered more accountability for his party, by suggesting that OTT ought to be subject to the cost/benefits test of philosophical worth. If we are to believe OTT, then it must, like any other metaphysical doctrine, show . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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