Facts are True Thoughts

Let us review the conclusions of the previous three chapters. In Chapter 1, correspondence theories were revealed to be committed to viewing facts as truthmakers. My charge was that such a conception rests on a myth: namely, that truths need truthmakers at all. Having denied that facts need be seen as truthmakers, we noted that we had thereby undermined the major motivation for taking facts to be states of affairs: complexes of worldly objects and properties.