How should we understand the truthmaking relation, and the way in which the existence of the truthmaker is sufficient for the truth of the theory? On the orthodox necessitation approach to truthmaking (Fox 1987; Bigelow 1988: 125; Armstrong 1997: 115; Lewis 2001), this sufficiency is analyzed in modal terms as follows: x is a truthmaker for T iff T is true and, necessarily, if x exists, then T is true. (A plural version replaces the singular variable ‘x’ with a plural variable ‘xx’ (read “the xs