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If we do take statements to be the primary bearers of truth, there seems to be a very simple answer to the question, what is it for them to be true: for a statement to be true is for things to be as they are stated to be.

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J. L. Mackie

J. L. Mackie
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Born: August 25, 1917
Died: December 12, 1981 (aged 64)
Bio: John Leslie Mackie, usually cited as J. L. Mackie, was an Australian philosopher, originally from Sydney.
Known for:
  1. Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong (1977)
  2. The Miracle of Theism
  3. Problems from Locke (1976)
  4. The cement of the universe (1974)
  5. Hume's moral theory (1980)

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