truthmaker

That entity in virtue of which a truthbearer is true.

Noun

  1. That entity in virtue of which a truthbearer is true.
    • It is possible for two non-synonymous sentences to have the same truthmaker. - 2008 August 27, Kevin Dewan, “Review of Heather Dyke, Metaphysics and the Representational Fallacy”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 2,...

Origin

From truth + maker.

Forms

truthmakers