 If this definition is adopted then it is plausible to maintain that many of the spurious cases of truth-makers, which have afflicted accounts of truth-making in terms of entailment, necessitation or projection, will thereby be weeded out (Lowe 2006: 202–3). It isn’t part of the essence of the proposition that John is kissing Mary that it is true if there exists an act of God’s willing it. Nor is it part of the essence of the proposition that 2+2=4 that it is true if there is a particular ice floe in the Antarctic. It isn’t even part of the essence of the proposition that 2+2=4 that it is true if π exists. So none of these things are (spuriously) classified, if (Essential-T) is our touchstone, as truth-makers for these propositions. In this respect, the essentialist conception of truth-making has conspicuous advantages over its aforementioned rivals.