In this chapter I shall reply to a pair of articles in which the main contention of my ''Why truthmakers'' -- namely, that an important class of synthetic true propositions have entities as truth-makers -- is rejected. In \S\S1--5 I reply to Jennifer Hornsby's ''Truth without Truthmaking Entities'' (2005) and in \S\S6--7 I reply to Julian Dodd's ''Negative Truths and Truthmaker Principles'' (2007).