Meanings
nountruthmaker (plural truthmakers)
plural truthmakers
- human sciencesThat entity in virtue of which a truthbearer is true.
It is possible for two non-synonymous sentences to have the same truthmaker.
2008 August 27, Kevin Dewan, “Review of Heather Dyke, Metaphysics and the Representational Fallacy”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 2, →DOI
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