Two Problems for Justin Zylstra's Truthmaker Semantics for Essence

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ContributorsVogt, Lisa

Publication date2020

Abstract

In his article ‘Making Semantics for Essence' (Inquiry, 2019), Justin Zylstra proposed a truthmaker semantics for essence and used it to evaluate principles regarding the explanatory role of essence. The aim of this article is to show that Zylstra's semantics has implausible implications and thus cannot adequately model essence.

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VOGT, Lisa. Two Problems for Justin Zylstra’s Truthmaker Semantics for Essence. In: Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy, 2020.

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ISSN of the journal0020-174X

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