 Nevertheless, on the downside, it may be questioned whether our grip upon the notion of the essence of a proposition is any firmer than the notion of truth-maker for it. Moreover, the benefits of adopting (Essential-T) come at a cost. The idea of a truth-maker is introduced as “intuitively attractive” (Lowe 2006: 207). But (Essential-T) requires propositions that are not only abstract—already anathema to naturalists—but also mysterious, because they are, so to speak, self-interpreting, i.e. propositions that mean what they do irrespective of what speakers or thinkers ever do with the signs or judgements that express them. So the idea of a truth-maker turns out to be far less intuitive and attractive than it initially seemed. Nonetheless, this is a commitment some may accept anyway (Lowe 2009: 178–80), or may be willing to accept if it gives them a good account of truth-making.