<p>This paper presents a Wittgensteinian critique of the truthmaker maximalism—which holds that every truth is made true by at least one truthmaker. The argument proceeds in three stages: First, I demonstrate that truthmaker maximalism’s motivations are fundamentally unmotivated, sharing the same philosophical vulnerabilities that Wittgenstein identified in Augustine’s picture of language. Second, I argue that Wittgenstein’s conception of proposition as a family resemblance concept necessitates a pluralistic view of explanation, suggesting that truthmakers constitute just one type of explanans among many. Third, within this pluralistic framework, I address the challenge of negative truths for the truthmaker maximalism.</p>