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Mind 2009 118(470):417-425; doi:10.1093/mind/fzp063
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Disjunctions, Conjunctions, and their Truthmakers

Dan López de Sa

ICREA at Departamenta de Lògica, Història, i Filosofia de la Ciència Universitat de Barcelona Montalegre 6 08001 Barcelona Spain LOGOS—Grup de Recerca en Lògica, Llenguatge, i Cognició Universitat de Barcelona Arché—The AHRC Research Centre for the Philosophy of Logic, Language, Mathematics and Mind University of St Andrews dlopezdesa{at}ub.edu


  Abstract

Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra (2006) argues against attempts to preserve the entailment principle (or a restriction of it) while avoiding the explosion of truthmakers for necessities and truthmaker triviality. In doing so, he both defends the disjunction thesis—if something makes true a disjunctive truth, then it makes true one of its disjuncts—, and rejects the conjunction thesis—if something makes tue a conjunctive truth, then it makes true each of its conjuncts. In my discussion, I provide plausible counterexamples to the disjunction thesis, and contend that Rodriguez-Pereyra's general defence of it fails. Then I defend the conjunction thesis from Rodriguez-Pereyra's case against it.


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