Single Idea 14549

[catalogued under 10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 1. Sources of Necessity]

Full Idea

Some truthmaker theorists are truthmaker necessitarians, believing that the way facts in the world make certain propositions true is by necessitating them.

Gist of Idea

Maybe truths are necessitated by the facts which are their truthmakers

Source

S.Mumford/R.Lill Anjum (Getting Causes from Powers [2011], 3.10)

Book Reference

Anjum,R.J./Mumford,S.: 'Getting Causes from Powers' [OUP 2011], p.67


A Reaction

[The cite Armstrong 2007:5-6] I don't believe in this sort of proposition (which turns out, on close inspection, to be just another way of referring to 'the facts'). Propositions are our attempts to express facts, so they can't be necessitated.