Beyond Necessity

"What she said" in the vernacular is a way of expressing or agreeing with what the speaker just said. We can extend this useful...

A nice companion to my 2010 post : For the simple truth is that truth is often hard to come by, and that once found it may easily be lost...

Every departmental science has a subject, and its literature talks about or refers to that subject. Physics talks about heavy bodies and m...

I have now scanned in Question 2 of the Prologue to Scotus' Ordinatio . There is much of interest here.  There is the well-known  allus...

Anthony asks whether ‘that it will rain next week’ is something . The quotes are scare quotes, but I could rephrase his question using real ...

Vallicella finally addresses the problem of  Excluded Middle and Future-Tensed Sentences .  A prediction in 1996 that the FTSE would reach 1...

When inspiration fails, I turn to the Maverick’s site to look for easy pickings, and, lo, I find his post from Tuesday about future conting...

Brandon has a thoughtful comment on an approach to truthmakers that turns the current discussion on its head. If I recall correctly David ...

Brightly suggests a rule for finding a truthmaker for any proposition p, viz., any entity t such that 't exists' entails p will do t...

Anthony, who occasionally asks some very good questions (I'm sorry I don't have time to address them all), asks in a comment to this...

No one agrees, so let’s look again at the premiss (3) of my earlier argument . I claim that the truthmaker for ‘A exists’ is not A itself. I...

Maverick has a post here , which I haven't had time to give full attention to.  He says that my infinite regress argument against truthm...

I have argued (e.g. here and here that the notion of a ‘truthmaker’ leads to an infinite regress. If there is such a truthmaker, an entity...

There was in fact no eclipse yesterday, as I predicted two days ago.  Hence my prediction was right .

I checked on the NASA website here, which confirms there will be no eclipses tomorrow (16 November 2011), although there will be a partial ...

Maverick has a nicely observed post here on the different senses of 'I do not understand', as used by philosophers.  For the sake o...

By chance, I found where ‘contradictions do not exist’ came from. See chapter seven (“The Exploiters and the Exploited”) of Ayn Rand’s Atlas...

The Maverick Philosopher challenges me to lodge one clear objection against the idea of a truthmaker.  Very well. The background. I origi...

The question being discussed here about truthmakers has some affinity with a question discussed by Frege in his late essay “Negation”. He c...

This blog is always first!  Following up the first reported sighting of a truthmaker for the proposition 'this watch is on the table...