Metaphysics and Truthmakers / / ed. by Jean-Maurice Monnoyer.

The essays collected in this volume concern the general question of truthmaking. Most of them also bear upon the metaphysical nature of truthmakers (moments, tropes, property-instances, Aristotelian substances, states of affairs, meanings or essences ? ). Taking as their starting point a famous semi...

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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2013]
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Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Philosophische Analyse / Philosophical Analysis , 18
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Vingt ans après
  • Truth-Makers
  • Two Dogmas of Truthmaking
  • Truth in virtue of meaning
  • Truthmaker Explanations
  • Truthmakers for negative truths, and for truths of mere possibility
  • A World of Truthmakers
  • Reply to Keller
  • Relational Truthmakers
  • ‘Is True’ and ‘Makes-True’: Two Predicates Without Properties
  • Senex erit puer
  • Truthmaking as Essential Dependence
  • Identity Makers
  • Truth-making : What it is not and What it Could be
  • A New Solution to the Problem of Negative Truth
  • The Price of Positivity : Mumford and Negatives
  • Backmatter