ABSTRACT
Despite the arguments of Simons and others (Mulligan, Simons, et al. 1984, §5; Fox 1987; Simons 2000), we do not all agree that truths need truthmakers (Beebee and Dodd 2005), and those of us who do agree differ about which truths have them (Forrest and Khlentzos 2000). Many follow Martin (1996) and Armstrong (2003) in taking the maximal truthmaker view that all truths have truthmakers. I share with Heil (2000) and others the moderate view that
only some truths, the primary ones, have truthmakers, while other truths and falsehoods are derivable from the primary truths by means of truth conditional semantics.
