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Omnium-gatherum

Philosophical Essays Dedicated to Jan Österberg on the Occasion of His Sixtieth Birthday

Zimmerman (1998) reports Noah Lemos' suggestion that a fact may be seen as
the obtaining of a state of affairs, where the obtaining of a state of affairs is not the
same as its mere existence. Insofar as we can refer to a state, such as, say, John
is happy, that state exists. But it need not obtain; as things are, John might be a
very unhappy person. If a state of affairs S obtains, the obtaining of S is a fact.5
Zimmerman thinks that this characterization of facts as obtainings of states of
affairs is ...