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Truthmaking and Grounding
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In previous chapters, I’ve argued that all truths have a truthmaker, and I’ve developed an ontological account of what those truthmakers are. They’re states of affairs, and they include negative and other logically complex entities. Now it’s time to turn our focus to the truthmaking relation itself. What kind of relation is it? What are its logical properties? Can it be defined, or otherwise understood, in more conceptually basic terms? What is its relation to the general concepts of grounding and metaphysical determination? These are the questions I’ll try to answer in this chapter.
Title: Truthmaking and Grounding
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In previous chapters, I’ve argued that all truths have a truthmaker, and I’ve developed an ontological account of what those truthmakers are.
They’re states of affairs, and they include negative and other logically complex entities.
Now it’s time to turn our focus to the truthmaking relation itself.
What kind of relation is it? What are its logical properties? Can it be defined, or otherwise understood, in more conceptually basic terms? What is its relation to the general concepts of grounding and metaphysical determination? These are the questions I’ll try to answer in this chapter.
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