Skip to content
Carmelics
TopicsThinkersChangesContributorsLoading account…

    Carmelics

    A reasoning platform. Break down any belief into clear reasons, explore both sides, and weigh the evidence honestly.

    Navigate

    • Topics
    • Search
    • Recent Changes
    • Contribute
    • How It Works
    • Glossary
    • Thinkers
    • Contributors
    • About
    • Statistics
    • Terms
    • Privacy

    Database

    Statements
    —
    Perspectives
    —
    Topics
    —

    Press ? for keyboard shortcuts

    LoyalLoyalJusticeJustice
    Made withinDC&Austin
    Statements
    321,452
    Perspectives
    108,905
    Topics
    42
    Assuming truthmaker necessitarianism, the truthmaker crit... — Carmelics
    Home/Modality & Possibility
    HistoryEditSee Inverse

    Part of a larger discussion

    Challenges→The truthmaker account of ontological commitment undergenerates commitments.

    Assuming truthmaker necessitarianism, the truthmaker criterion for particulars entails that a theory is ontologically committed to a particular only if the existence of that particular is both necessary and sufficient for the truth of the theory.

    Modality & PossibilityTruth & Knowledge
    ?Rate how convincing each reason is below to see the overall strength.

    No one has weighed in yet. Be the first to share reasons for or against this statement.

    Sign in or register to share your perspective on this statement.

    Topics

    Modality & PossibilityTruth & Knowledge

    Key Terms

    Necessary and sufficient(describes the relationship between a particular's existence and a statement's truth)
    Necessary means something must happen for a result; sufficient means something alone is enough to guarantee that result.
    Ontologically committed(describes what a theory must believe exists)
    When a theory claims that certain things actually exist as part of its explanation of the world.
    Truthmaker criterion

    Next step

    Based on where you are in your exploration

    Browse more in Modality & Possibility
    Related propositions within the same area of thought.
    (used to evaluate theories)
    A standard or rule for deciding what kinds of things in the world are responsible for making statements true or false.
    particulars(Buddhist epistemology (pramāṇa theory))
    The actual objects of the world that are directly accessible only through perception and are ineffable — they cannot be captured or referred to by words
    truthmaker necessitarianism(Assumed in deriving the consequences of the truthmaker criteria for particulars and kinds)
    The view that truthmakers necessitate the truths they make true, such that the existence of the truthmaker is both necessary and sufficient for the truth of the relevant proposition or theory.

    Related

    Assuming truthmaker necessitarianism, the truthmaker criterion for kinds entails...Examples of implicit ontological commitment show that sufficiency is not require...The ontological commitments of a theory are not necessarily entities whose exist...The truthmaker account of ontological commitment undergenerates commitments.
    +1 moreShow less
    The truthmakers for a theory are entities whose existence is sufficient for the ...

    Similar

    Assuming truthmaker necessitarianism, the truthmaker criterion for kin...96%The truthmakers for a theory are entities whose existence is sufficien...85%The truthmaker criterion for particulars fails to capture the ontologi...85%The truthmaker criterion requires additionally that Ks be among the tr...85%

    Source

    AI-extracted
    SEP: ontological-commitment
    View source passageHide passage
    The truthmaker account of ontological commitment—like the quantifier account, but for an entirely different reason—has a problem with capturing implicit commitment. The problem arises because the truthmakers for a theory, but not the ontological commitments of a theory, are entities whose existence is sufficient for the truth of the theory. The problem afflicts both the truthmaker criterion for particulars, and for kinds. Indeed, assuming truthmaker necessitarianism, it follows from the former c

    Details

    Type
    premise
    Perspectives
    0 (0 for, 0 against)
    Edits
    1 edit

    Open for perspectives

    This idea is waiting for its first supporting or challenging perspective.

    Share the first perspective