 The connection between ontological dependence and truthmaking is of a more general type. On many construals, the core of truthmaker theory is considered to be the idea that truth depends—or supervenes—on being (Bigelow 1988: 133; see also Armstrong 2004, Schaffer 2010a, and Liggins 2012). Recently, some have resisted this idea (e.g., Merricks 2007), but it does remain popular among truthmaker theorists (for discussion, see the separate entry on  truthmakers).  Moreover, the connection between truthmaking and ontological dependence has been a part of truthmaker theory from the very beginning; Mulligan, Simons, and Smith (1984: 294) rely on Husserl’s work on ontological dependence in their introduction of the idea of truthmaking (for further discussion of Husserl’s work regarding dependence, see Simons 1982 and Johansson 2004: Ch. 9). More precisely, it seems there must be some way in which the world is in virtue of which true propositions are true, but the world itself is not symmetrically dependent on truth; there is an asymmetric dependence relation between truth and being (accordingly, this dependence needs to be expressed with an asymmetric notion of dependence, see  §3  above).