The least discerning and most promiscuous truthmaker

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Schaffer, Jonathan

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Blackwell Publishing Ltd

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I argue that the one and only truthmaker is the world. This view can be seen as arising from (i) the view that truthmaking is a relation of grounding holding between true propositions and fundamental entities, together with (ii) the view that the world is the one and only fundamental entity. I argue that this view provides an elegant and economical account of the truthmakers, while solving the problem of negative existentials, in a way that proves ontologically revealing.

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Philosophical Quarterly, The

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2037-12-31