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Horwich I 463
Making true/truthmaker/Davidson: the totality of the evidence makes sentences or theories true - but not a thing, no experience, no surface stimuli, not even the world makes sentences true.

Richard Rorty (1986), "Pragmatism, Davidson and Truth" in E. Lepore (Ed.) Truth and Interpretation. Perspectives on the philosophy of Donald Davidson, Oxford, pp. 333-55. Reprinted in:
Paul Horwich (Ed.) Theories of truth, Dartmouth, England USA 1994

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Rorty IV 49
Making true/truthmaker/Davidson/Rorty: there is no relation of "truth-making" between sentences and non-sentences.
>Reality, >World, >Facts, >Causal theory of knowledge.

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