Metaphysics and Truthmakers.

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Author / Creator:	Monnoyer, Jean-Maurice.
Imprint:	Berlin : De Gruyter, 2007.
Description:	1 online resource (334 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Philosophische Analyse / Philosophical Analysis Philosophische Analyse / Philosophical Analysis.
Subject:	Truth -- Congresses. Metaphysics -- Congresses. Metaphysics. Truth. Electronic books. Conference papers and proceedings.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11193053

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ISBN:	9783110326918 3110326914
Notes:	Print version record.
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 con.
Other form:	Print version: Monnoyer, Jean-Maurice. Metaphysics and Truthmakers. Berlin : De Gruyter, ©2007 9783110326581

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