dc.contributor.author | SIMONS, PETER | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-12-08T14:52:58Z | |
dc.date.available | 2015-12-08T14:52:58Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2015 | |
dc.date.submitted | 2015 | en |
dc.identifier.citation | Peter Simons, Mereology and Truth-Making, Logic and Logical Philosophy | en |
dc.identifier.other | Y | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2262/75080 | |
dc.description.abstract | M
any mereological propositions are true contingently, so we are
entitled to ask why they are true. One frequently given type of answer to
such questions evokes truth-makers, that is, entities in virtue of whose exis-
tence the propositions in question are true. However, even without endors-
ing the extreme view that all contingent propositions have truth-makers, it
turns out to be puzzlingly hard to provide intuitively convincing candidate
truth-makers for even a core class of basic mereological propositions. Part of
the problem is that the relation of part to whole is ontologically intimate in
a way reminiscent of identity. Such intimacy bespeaks a formal or internal
relation, which typically requires no truth-makers beyond its terms. But
truth-makers are held to necessitate their truths, so whence the contingency
when
A
is part of
B
but need not be, or
B
need not have
A
as part? This
paper addresses and attempts to disentangle the conundrum. | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Logic and Logical Philosophy; | |
dc.rights | Y | en |
dc.subject | mereology | en |
dc.subject | mereological propositions | en |
dc.subject | truth-makers | en |
dc.subject | continuants | en |
dc.title | Mereology and Truth-Making | en |
dc.type | Journal Article | en |
dc.type.supercollection | scholarly_publications | en |
dc.type.supercollection | refereed_publications | en |
dc.identifier.peoplefinderurl | http://people.tcd.ie/psimons | |
dc.identifier.rssinternalid | 108626 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.12775/LLP.2015.020 | |
dc.rights.ecaccessrights | openAccess | |
dc.subject.TCDTag | MEREOLOGY | en |
dc.subject.TCDTag | truth-makers | en |