quotes about Propositions

last updated: November 28, 2023

A truthmaker is an entity in virtue of which the proposition it makes true is true. And it is a necessary condition of being a truthmaker (though not a sufficient one) that a truthmaker necessitates the proposition it makes true.
-- Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

Source : "Truthmaking". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com.

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