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Exact Truthmaking as Inexact Truthmaking by Minimal Totality Facts

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This article sketches a proposal for how to interpret exact truthmaker semantics within inexact truthmaker semantics: exact truthmaking might be viewed as inexact truthmaking by minimal totality facts. While the philosophical idea is explained by reference to an example, the logical details are left to follow-up work.

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Notes

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    Acknowledgements: I am grateful to Ilaria Canavotto, Alessandro Giordani, and Jacek Malinowski, without whom this discussion note would not exist.

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    In the case of an uncountable state space, the resulting object language would be uncountable; but never mind.

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  1. Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1, D-80539, Munich, Germany

    Hannes Leitgeb

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  1. Department of Philosophy, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano, Italy

    Alessandro Giordani

  2. Institute of Philosophy and Sociology Polish, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa, Poland

    Jacek Malinowski

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Leitgeb, H. (2021). Exact Truthmaking as Inexact Truthmaking by Minimal Totality Facts. In: Giordani, A., Malinowski, J. (eds) Logic in High Definition. Trends in Logic, vol 56. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53487-5_5

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