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Truth depends in some sense on reality. But it is a rather delicate matter to spell this intuition out in a plausible and precise way. According to the theory of truth-making this intuition implies that either every truth or at least every truth of a certain class of truths has a so-called truth-maker, an entity whose existence accounts for truth. This book aims to provide several ways of assessing the correctness of this controversial claim. The book presents a detailed introduction to the theory of truth-making, which outlines truth-maker relations, the ontological category of truth-making entities, and the scope of a truth-maker theory. The essays brought together here represent the most important articles on truth-making in the last three decades as well as new essays by leading researchers in the field of the theory of truth and of truth-making.

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"""A useful source. It includes a number of key papers in the truth-maker literature and offers up-to-date views on the existing debates. The volume will provide working philosophers with a handy source of 'classic' papers, as well as some new and innovative ideas and arguments. The range of papers included ought to provide a useful collection for an upper level undergraduate class or graduate class. Anyone who has an interest in the truth-maker debate will most likely find something here that makes it worth owning the book."" - Metapsychology The theory of truth-making has become in a few years one of the most exciting and difficult topics within theoretical philosophy. This collection is very welcome and will be of great help to newcomers and to afficionados alike.A"" - Pascal Engel, University of Geneva"

The theory of truth-making has become in a few years one of the most exciting and difficult topics within theoretical philosophy. This collection is very welcome and will be of great help to newcomers and to afficionados alike. - Pascal Engel, University of Geneva

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E. J. Lowe is Professor of Philosophy at University of Durham. A. Rami is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Gottingen.

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