Fness A realist who appealed to a in order to give an account of what makes 2 true willlikely adopt the same account of what makes 3 true She will claim that 3 is true onlyif A exemplifies ID: 153451
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Suppose the realist adopts (a) as an account of what makes (2) true. That is to say,suppose the realist claims that A exemplifies Fness is true only if A exemplifies theproperty exemplifies Fness. (Another way of putting this is that (2) is true only if Aexemplifies the exemplification of Fness). The problem with this way of accounting forwhat makes (2) true is that it generates another sentence whose truth the realist must givean account of. Namely:(3) A exemplifies the exemplification of Fness. A realist who appealed to (a) in order to give an account of what makes (2) true, willlikely adopt the same account of what makes (3) true. She will claim that (3) is true onlyif A exemplifies the property exemplifies the exemplification of Fness. (Another way ofputting this is that (3) is true only if A exemplifies the exemplification of theexemplification of Fness). And, of course, this generates another sentence whose truththe realist must give an account of. Namely, the following sentence:(4) A exemplifies the exemplification of the exemplification of Fness SP the exemplification relation. SP