Informally speaking, a truthmaker is something in the world in virtue
of which the sentences of a language can be made true. This fundamental philosophical
notion plays a central role in applied ontology. In particular, a recent nonorthodox
formulation of this notion proposed by the philosopher Josh Parsons,
which we labelled weak truthamking, has been shown to be extremely useful in addressing
a number of classical problems in the area of Conceptual Modeling. In this
paper, after revisiting the classical notion of truthmaking, we conduct an in depth
analysis of Parsons' account of weak truthmaking. By doing that, we expose some
difficulties in his original formulation. As the main contribution of this paper, we
propose solutions to address these issues which are then integrated in a new precise
interpretation of truthmaking that is harmonizable with commonsense as well as
with existing four-category foundational ontologies.
