 According to Armstrong, the “truth-maker principle” (aka maximalism) just is what we are left with once we drop the assumption from the correspondence theory that the relation between truth bearers and truth-makers is one-one. Of course, the truth-making relation, however it is explicated, cannot be the relation of correspondence in terms of which truth is defined—for whereas the latter is symmetric, the former isn’t (Beebee &amp; Dodd 2005b: 13–4). But this doesn’t prevent truth being defined using the truth-making relation, albeit in a more roundabout way according to the following pattern,