How to be a Truthmaker Maximalist

There’s no existent like ‘no existence’ like no existent I know

“…The 25 Other choices available to the maximalist are 'big facts' (Cheyne and Pidgen 2006) and that the world has its properties essentially (Cameron, 2008b). Since both views commit us to controversial ontology and the current proposal only to theoretical complexity, so the current account is to be preferred.…”

Not a Total Failure

“…Perhaps it's "the world" (Cameron (2008)-though see "The Nature of the Totality Relation", below); perhaps it's the one substance (Schaffer 2010); perhaps nothing does, and negative existential propositions such as <there are no arctic penguins> get to be true simply because their negations lack truth-makers (Tallant 2010). 1 Lots of "perhaps".…”

Immodest and Proud

“…It has received extensive treatment in the philosophical literature: perhaps such truths require truthmakers (e.g. Cameron (2008)); perhaps they do not (e.g. Tallant (2010)).…”