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What makes logical necessities true?

For example: A. Jonah Hill is alive or he is not. What makes A true? As far I can tell, there are four kinds of proposals: 1. Contingentism: A is true because Jonah Hill is alive (or because of whatever makes Jonah be alive). 2. Essentialism: A is true in virtue of disjunction and negation having the logical nature they have. 3. Representationalism: A is true because the actual world is a possible world. Pros and Cons: 4. Contingentism: A is true because Jonah Hill is alive (or because of whatever makes Jonah be alive). a. PROS:  i. Does not require postulating special entities like worlds and logical operations. ii. Offers a uniform account of the way operations affect truthmaking for contingent and necessary truths, i.e., it respects the following truth-making principle: truth-bearers of the form PvQ are made true by what makes P true (if P is true) plus what makes Q true (if it is true). b. CONS:  i. Makes necessary truths less metaphysically fu