The Dilemma of Truthmaker Maximism and Its Solution:From the Perspective of the Philosophy of Logical Atomism
In truthmaker theory,whether every truth has a truthmaker has always been a focus of debate among philosophers.Truthmaker maximism claims that every truth has a truthmaker.Philosophers who support this position have two defense strategies:one is to supply truthmakers for various truths;The second is to provide a logical proof of truthmaker maximism.However,they all face some theoretical difficulties,as the ontology load of the former is too heavy,while the proof premise of the latter is highly ad hoc.In fact,the approach of construction can also be used to defend truthmaker max-imism.The Russellian truthmaker theory based on the philosophy of logical atomism is such an attempt,which applies a combinatorial analysis method and introduces the concept of the falsemaker.Its explanation of truth is more in line with our actual cognition.