The dependence of truth on being in Asay’s A Theory of Truthmaking

Asian Journal of Philosophy 1 (1):1-6 (2021)
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In this commentary piece, I argue that Asay’s accounts of truth and truthmaking in A Theory of Truthmaking give no role to the idea that truth depends on being. In fact, some of the positions taken in the book are in tension with this idea that has been central to truthmaker theory. I consider how three aspects of Asay’s account relate to the idea that truth depends on being.

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