Abstract
According to the truthmaker principle, every truth at least, every con tingent truth has a truthmaker, something in virtue of which it is true. Some philosophers have thought that the truthmaker principle faces prob lems with true negative existentials (such as the truth that there are no unicorns) and with true atomic predications (such as the truth that the rose is red). In a recent paper, Peter Milne (2005) argues that the principle can be jeopardized much more easily indeed, can be disproved by a few lines of natural deduction. Consider the sentence:
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