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Horwich I 194
Truthmaker/Strawson: if the situation is the subject, it is not the situation that makes the statement true.
Fact: is a non-linguistic term (therefore not subject).(1)
>Facts/Strawson.

1. Peter F. Strawson, "Truth", Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Suppl. Vol XXIV, 1950, in: Paul Horwich (ed.) Theories of Truth, Aldershot 1994
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Strawson II 20ff
Truthmaker/Strawson: facts make assertions true, not things.
II 252
Truthmaker/VsAustin: that the cat has mange, is not made true by the cat (as a thing), but by the condition of the cat (the fact).
II 257
Truthmaker/Strawson: e.g. language with "plate" (Wittgenstein, PI) would be just as conventional, but those alleged pseudo entities that make the statements true (facts), would not be among the non-linguistic correlates. - ((s) the world wouldn’t be emptier.)

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