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

    Optimalism appeals to the totality of what exists, but this appeal is itself uninformative precisely because it cannot specify which feature of reality necessitates any particular negative truth.

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    Necessitates(describing what happens when you change one thing in a system of internal relations)
    Forces something to happen or be true; makes it unavoidable or logically required.
    Negative truth(what the statement claims optimalism cannot explain)
    A statement that something is NOT the case (for example: 'unicorns do not exist' rather than 'unicorns exist').
    Totality of what exists(what optimalism appeals to)
    Everything that is real—the complete sum of all things, events, and facts in the universe.
    Uninformative(describing what the appeal to totality does)
    Failing to provide useful information or clarity; not actually explaining or helping us understand something.
    optimalism(Truth-maker theory)

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