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One Way to Face Facts

“One Way to Face Facts,” The Philosophical Quarterly, 54 (2004) 420–426.

Stephen Neale, in Facing Facts takes theories of facts, truthmakers, and non-extensional connectives to be threatened by triviality in the face of powerful “slingshot” arguments. In this paper I rehearse the most powerful of these arguments, and then show that friends of facts have resources sufficient to not only resist slingshot arguments but also to be untroubled by them. If a fact theory is provided with a model, then the fact theorist can be sure that this theory is secure from triviality arguments.

Details

Author: Greg Restall
Status: Published in 2004

Local file: facts.pdf (186KB)

Subjects: facts metaphysics modal logic truthmakers

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I’m Greg Restall, and this is my website. I work in Philosophy at the University of Melbourne. Email: greg at consequently.org; Post: School of of Philosophy, Anthropology and Social Inquiry, University of Melbourne, Parkville 3010, Australia.

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Q: How many speech act theorists does it take to change a light bulb? / A: Do you really want to know or are you simply asking me to change it?