  Is a fact just a true proposition? There are metaphysical and linguistic arguments to the contrary. Here is a standard metaphysical argument. The fact that snow is white couldn’t exist if snow wasn’t white, but the true proposition would (only it would be false). Therefore, the fact isn’t the true proposition (See Moore 1953, p. 308). Facts might be, still, in some sense, derivative from true propositions, even if the identity claim fails. Following Moore (1953, pp. 261–2) and Slote (1974, p. 99), Kit Fine (1982, pp. 52–3) suggests that facts may be conceived as concretizations of true propositions. Thus, the fact that p is the truth of &lt;p&gt;. However, so construing facts makes them poor candidates for truthmakers: the truth of p, presumably, is not what makes &lt;p&gt; true.