State of affairs (philosophy)
PHILOSOPHICAL CONCEPT
States of affairs; Sachverhalt; Factualism; Factualist
In philosophy, a state of affairs (), also known as a situation, is a way the actual world must be in order to make some given proposition about the actual world true; in other words, a state of affairs is a truth-maker, whereas a proposition is a truth-bearer. Whereas states of affairs either obtain or fail-to-obtain, propositions are either true or false.