Truthmaking, Recombination, and Facts Ontology.
The idea of truthmakers is important for doing serious metaphysics, since a truthmaker principle can give us important guidance in finding out what we would like to include into our ontology. Recently, David Lewis has argued against Armstrong’s argument that a plausible truthmaker principle requires...
| Publicado en: | Philosophical Studies Vol. 128; no. 2; pp. 409 - 441 |
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Mar2006
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