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Armstrong’s Truth and Truthmakers
In section one I outline the project of Armstrong‟s book Truth and Truthmakers. In section two I make some observations about the relation of this project to various theories of truth and to realism. In section three I present Armstrong‟s response to one of the toughest challenges to his thesis that every truth has a truthmaker: the challenge of finding truthmakers for negative truths and gener...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Disputatio
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0873-626X
DOI: 10.2478/disp-2004-0012