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An exact truthmaker semantics for obligation and permission Universiteit Gent
Trust-makers or trust-breakers? : governmental responses to food safety incidents in Japan Universiteit Gent
Sein, Sache, Ordnung: Thomas von Aquin über Wahrmacher und die Beziehung des Wahrmachens KU Leuven
© 2017 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin. The goal of this paper is to determine how Aquinas conceives of the truth-makers of (affirmative present-tense) propositions and the relation of truthmaking. First, I show that Aquinas describes a truth-maker, to which he refers as the "cause of truth" (causa veritatis), in at least four ways: (i) as the "being of a thing" (esse rei), (ii) as a "thing" (res), (iii) as the "disposition" of a thing ...
Subtracting reasons in normative domains Universiteit Gent
Practical reasons can be aggregated to decide what one ought to do. This paper explores an operation that undoes aggregation: subtraction. I consider several distinctions concerning subtraction: subtracting content and subtracting strength; and subtracting one reason from one other reason or from a set of reasons. I put forward a precise understanding of subtracting the content of one reason from another, based on an operation of difference on a ...