Truthmaking, Recombination, and Facts Ontology |
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Authors: | Frank Hofmann |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Philosophy and History, University of Tuebingen, Bursagasse 1, Tuebingen, 72070, Germany |
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Abstract: | The idea of truthmakers is important for doing serious metaphysics, since a truthmaker principle can give us important guidance
in finding out what we would like to include into our ontology. Recently, David Lewis has argued against Armstrong’s argument
that a plausible truthmaker principle requires us to accept facts. I would like to take a close look at the argument. I will
argue in detail that the Humean principle of recombination on which Lewis relies is not plausible (independently of the issue
of facts). Then I will show that the right truthmaker principle that vindicates facts is superior to the modified truthmaker
principle that Lewis has proposed. This will lead into the topic of being and existence. It turns out that truthmaking and
facts are plausible, well suited for one another, and very coherent with a plausible conception of being. |
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