Mark Jago offers a new metaphysical account of truth. He argues that to be true is to be made true by the existence of a suitable worldly entity. Truth arises as a relation between a proposition - the content of our sayings, thoughts, beliefs, and so on - and an entity (or entities) in the world.

• Introduction


• Truth and Making True


• 1: Truth: Substantial or Insubstantial?


• 2: Arguments for Truthmaking


• 3: Truthmaker Maximalism


• Truthmakers


• 4: States of Affairs


• 5: Everything and Nothing


• The Truthmaking Relation


• 6: Truthmaking and Grounding


• 7: The Logic of Truthmaking


• Propositions and Paradoxes


• 8: The Nature of Propositions


• 9: Dealing with Liars


• Appendix: Proof Theory

Mark Jago is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nottingham. He is author of The Impossible: An Essay on Hyperintensionality (OUP 2014) and editor of Reality Making (OUP 2015).