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Metaphysics and Truthmakers / ed. by Jean-Maurice Monnoyer.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Philosophische Analyse / Philosophical Analysis ; 18Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2013]Copyright date: ©2007Description: 1 online resource (332 p.)Content type:
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  • 9783110326581
  • 9783110326918
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 121 22
LOC classification:
  • BD171 .C64 2004
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Vingt ans après -- Truth-Makers -- Two Dogmas of Truthmaking -- Truth in virtue of meaning -- Truthmaker Explanations -- Truthmakers for negative truths, and for truths of mere possibility -- A World of Truthmakers -- Reply to Keller -- Relational Truthmakers -- ‘Is True’ and ‘Makes-True’: Two Predicates Without Properties -- Senex erit puer -- Truthmaking as Essential Dependence -- Identity Makers -- Truth-making : What it is not and What it Could be -- A New Solution to the Problem of Negative Truth -- The Price of Positivity : Mumford and Negatives -- Backmatter
Summary: 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 contingent truth, bare possibility, tensed propositions, the ontological irreducibility of relations, the subsistence of facts and the epistemic role of negative truths. The collection as a whole provides a comprehensive and thought-provoking survey of the current debate about truthmaking theory and deserves to be read carefully by anyone interested in the relationship between language, thought and reality. With contributions from David ARMSTRONG, Stefano CAPUTO, François CLEMENTZ, Pascal ENGEL, Herbert HOCHBERG, Philipp KELLER, Jonathan LOWE, Jean-Maurice MONNOYER, Kevin MULLIGAN, Stephen MUMFORD, Frederic NEF, Peter SIMONS, Barry SMITH, Jonathan SIMON
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Vingt ans après -- Truth-Makers -- Two Dogmas of Truthmaking -- Truth in virtue of meaning -- Truthmaker Explanations -- Truthmakers for negative truths, and for truths of mere possibility -- A World of Truthmakers -- Reply to Keller -- Relational Truthmakers -- ‘Is True’ and ‘Makes-True’: Two Predicates Without Properties -- Senex erit puer -- Truthmaking as Essential Dependence -- Identity Makers -- Truth-making : What it is not and What it Could be -- A New Solution to the Problem of Negative Truth -- The Price of Positivity : Mumford and Negatives -- Backmatter

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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 contingent truth, bare possibility, tensed propositions, the ontological irreducibility of relations, the subsistence of facts and the epistemic role of negative truths. The collection as a whole provides a comprehensive and thought-provoking survey of the current debate about truthmaking theory and deserves to be read carefully by anyone interested in the relationship between language, thought and reality. With contributions from David ARMSTRONG, Stefano CAPUTO, François CLEMENTZ, Pascal ENGEL, Herbert HOCHBERG, Philipp KELLER, Jonathan LOWE, Jean-Maurice MONNOYER, Kevin MULLIGAN, Stephen MUMFORD, Frederic NEF, Peter SIMONS, Barry SMITH, Jonathan SIMON

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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