Assertion: truth | /r/HasAspect | truthmaker
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text: But it could also be pursued—and this seems to have been Russell’s intention at the time—with the aim to secure the truthmaker principle, even though the simple correspondence definition has been abandoned: not every truth corresponds to a fact, only elementary truths do, but every truth has a truthmaker; where the recursive clauses are supposed to show how truthmaking without correspondence, but grounded in correspondence, comes about.
text: This recursive strategy could be pursued with the aim to reject the truthmaker principle: not all truths have truthmakers, only elementary truths have truthmakers (here understood as corresponding atomic facts).
text: On that view, the principle that truths have truthmakers is 'fairly obvious once attention is drawn to it' (Armstrong 1989: 89).
text: Jago does agree with Armstrong that all truths have truthmakers (10); in other words, they both reject non-maximalist versions of truthmaker theory.
text: All truths have truthmakers.