What makes it true when we say that something is not the case? Truth-maker maximalists think that every truth has a truthmaker—some fact in the world—that makes it true. No such facts can be found for the so-called negative truths. If a proposition is true when it has a truthmaker, then it would be false when it has no truthmaker. I therefore argue that negative truths, such as t , are best understood as falsehoods, f .
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