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    Noël Saenz

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    Noël Saenz is a contemporary analytic philosopher working primarily in metaphysics, with a focus on truthmakers, negative truths, and ontological grounding. His work examines how negative propositions—statements about what is not the case—can be made true without positing problematic negative entities. He has contributed to debates over optimalism and the metaphysics of truth.

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    Defended the optimalist account of negative truths against informativeness objections

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    Contributed to the truthmaker theory literature on grounding negative facts

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    Engaged with debates on ontological parsimony in metaphysics of truth

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

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