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    Truthmaker theory, developed by Armstrong and Bigelow, re... — Carmelics
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    Supports→The entailment account of ontological commitment captures ontological costs that the quantifier account misses.

    Truthmaker theory, developed by Armstrong and Bigelow, requires that true sentences are made true by entities in the world, not merely by quantificational form.

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    • 1.True statements like 'snow is white' seem to depend on external reality, not just logical structure or language use.
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    • 2.Without truthmakers, we cannot explain why 'cats exist' is true but 'unicorns exist' is false—both have identical quantificational form.
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    • 3.Truth grounded in worldly entities provides a realist foundation that avoids reducing truth to mere convention or coherence.
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    • 1.Negative truths like 'no dragons exist' seem to require non-existent entities as truthmakers, creating logical absurdities.
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    • 2.The theory conflates metaphysical grounding with semantic truth conditions; statements can be true without corresponding objects.
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    • 3.Mathematical truths appear true yet lack physical truthmakers, undermining the theory's universal applicability.
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