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Document Details : Title: Against Truthmaker Necessitarianism Author(s): STENWALL, Robin Journal: Logique et Analyse Volume: 233 Date: 2016 Pages: 37-54 DOI: 10.2143/LEA.233.0.3149530 Abstract : This paper is an argument against Truthmaker Necessitarianism — the doctrine that the existence of a truthmaker necessitates the truth of the proposition it makes true. Armstrong’s sufficiency argument for necessitarianism is examined and shown to be question begging. It is then argued in detail that truthmaking is a matter of grounding truth and that grounding is a dependency relation that neither entails nor reduces to necessitation. |
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