| In this paper, Stathis Psillos argues that scientific realism should be committed to the factualist view of reality and not, in the first instance, to the fundamentalist. |
| In the debate between friends and enemies of factualist truthmaker maximalism it is often assumed that truthmakers must be ontologically or metaphysically fundamental. |
| By far the most popular objection to factualist truthmaker maximalism, an objection made by both friends and enemies of facts, is that it is ontologically baroque, that is to say, incredible. |
| If facts are not ontologically fundamental, then one objection to factualist truthmaker maximalism misses its mark. |
