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    It is not the case that 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.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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    • 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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