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Damian Cox

1997

Truth-maker

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The Trouble With Truthmakers, Damian Cox Dec 1996

The Trouble With Truthmakers, Damian Cox

Damian Cox

This paper argues that theories of truth which seek to specify the ontological ground of true statements by appealing to an ontology of truth-makers face a severe and possibly insurmountable obstacle in the form of logically complex statements. I argue that there is no apparent way to develop an account of logically complex truth within the confines of a modest and plausible ontology of truth-makers and to this end criticize independent attempts by Armstrong and Pendlebury to develop such an account.