Disjunctions, Conjunctions, and their Truthmakers

Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra (2006) argues against attempts to preserve the entailment principle (or a restriction of it) while avoiding the explosion of truthmakers for necessities and truthmaker triviality. In doing so, he both defends the disjunction thesis-if something makes true a disjunctive truth, then it makes true one of its disjuncts-, and rejects the conjunction thesis-if something makes tue a conjunctive truth, then it makes true each of its conjuncts. In my discussion, I provide plausible counter examples to the disjunction thesis, and contend that Rodriguez-Pereyra's general defence of it fails. Then I defend the conjunction thesis from Rodriguez-Pereyra's case against it.