Metaphysics and Truthmakers:
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Main Author: Monnoyer, Jean-Maurice (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin De Gruyter 2007
Series:Philosophische Analyse / Philosophical Analysis
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Item Description:Vingt ans après; Truth-Makers*KEVIN MULLIGAN; Two Dogmas of TruthmakingKEVIN MULLIGAN; Truth in virtue of meaningPETER SIMONS; Truthmaker ExplanationsBARRY SMITH; Truthmakers for negative truths, and for truths of mere possibilityD. M. ARMSTRONG; A World of TruthmakersPHILIPP KELLER; Reply to KellerD. M. ARMSTRONG; Relational TruthmakersFRANÇOIS CLEMENTZ; 'Is True' and 'Makes-True':Two Predicates Without PropertiesHERBERT HOCHBERG; Senex erit puerTruthmakers for tensed sentencesFRÉDÉRIC NEF; Truthmaking as Essential DependenceE. J. LOWE; Identity MakersPASCAL ENGEL.
Truth-making :What it is not and What it Could beSTEFANO CAPUTOA New Solution to the Problem of NegativeTruthSTEPHEN MUMFORD; The Price of Positivity : Mumford andNegativesPETER SIMONS.
The essays collected in this volume concern the general question of truthmaking. Most of them also bear upon the metaphysical nature of truthmakers (moments, tropes, property-instances, Aristotelian substances, states of affairs, meanings or essences?). Taking as their starting point a famous seminal paper by K. Mulligan, P. Simons and B. Smith, as well as D. Armstrong's outstanding contribution to the subject, they offer a fresh assay of the main concepts involved, in order to assess the explanatory value of truthmakers and truthmaker necessitarianism, and explore such delicate issues as con
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ISBN:3110326914
9783110326918

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