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    Milne — Carmelics
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    Milne

    contemporaryAnalytic Philosophy

    Milne is a contemporary analytic philosopher working in logic, philosophy of language, and metaphysics, with contributions to debates in truthmaker theory. His work engages with the metaphysical grounding of negative truths and the adequacy of optimalist approaches within that literature.

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    Contributed to the truthmaker theory debate, particularly on the status of negative truths

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    Engaged critically with optimalist accounts of how negative propositions are made true

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    Published work in formal logic and philosophy of language

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    The lack of informativeness is not a good objection to the optimalist account of negative truths

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