 Typically philosophers who maintain that “makes true” is a connective do not argue for this conclusion directly but encourage us to dwell upon the fact that it natural to hear the “because” that occurs in equivalent constructions as a connective. When we hear, e.g., “It is true that the rose is red because the rose is red” we don’t naturally hear it as expressing a binary relation between two things. So we shouldn’t hear, or at least don’t have to hear, “It’s true that the rose is red in virtue of the rose’s being red” or “the rose’s being red makes it true that the rose is red” as a expressing a binary relation between a truth and truth-maker either.