Conclusion
Building an Ontology
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 April 2020
Summary
The concluding chapter summarizes the specific ontological claims defended in the latter part of the book, and demonstrates how thinking about truthmaking can help defend and articulate a variety of metaphysical views. The view on offer falls somewhere in the middle of the metaphysical spectrum: it is more thoroughly committed when it comes to properties and the past, but less so with respect to mathematics and fictional discourse. As a result, it is hoped to show that concern for truthmaking itself does not lead to across-the-board realism, and can be hospitable toward certain forms of nominalism or antirealism.
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- A Theory of TruthmakingMetaphysics, Ontology, and Reality, pp. 262 - 264Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020