Abstract

Even recognized by several recent authors as the forerunner of the modern concepts of truthmakers and of truthmaking, no treatment of these concepts in Aristotle's work was until now presented. This article try to make an introductory presentation of these concepts in the thought of the Lyceum master through the analysis of some passages picked out from Categories and Metaphysics, showing that the concept of truthmaker is determined by the notion of state of affair (to pragma) and the truthmaking relation by way of the concepts of ontological grounding and of ontological dependence.

Keywords: Aristotle, Truthmakers, Truthmaking.