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Truthmaking without necessitation.

I propose an account truthmaking that provides truthmakers for negative truths. The account replaces Truthmaker Necessitarianism with a 'Duplication Principle', according to which a suitable entity T is a truthmaker for a proposition p just in case the existence of an appropriate counterpart of T en...

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Published in:Synthese Vol. 189; no. 1; pp. 11 - 29
Main Author: Briggs, Rachael
Format: Article
Published: Springer Nature Nov2012
Subjects:
Truth
Necessity (Philosophy)
Disjunction (Logic)
Armstrong, David
Entailment (Logic)
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