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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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