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<p>In <a href="page.php?w=philosophy">philosophy</a>, a <b>state of affairs</b> , also known as a <b>situation</b>, is a way the <a href="page.php?w=actual_world">actual world</a> 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 <a href="page.php?w=proposition">proposition</a> is a truth-bearer. Whereas states of affairs either obtain or fail-to-obtain, propositions are either true or false. Some philosophers understand the term "states of affairs" in a more</p><p>
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