Metaphysical grounding is standardly taken to be irreflexive: nothing grounds itself. Kit Fine has presented some puzzles that appear to contradict this principle. I construct a particularly simple variant of those puzzles that is independent of several of the assumptions required by Fine, instead employing quantification into sentence position. Various possible responses to Fine's puzzles thus turn out to apply only in a restricted range of cases
The elucidations and regimentations of grounding offered in the literature standardly take it to be ...
This paper explores a middle way between realism and eliminativism about grounding. Grounding-talk i...
International audienceThe notion of grounding is usually conceived as an objective and explanatory r...
Metaphysical grounding is standardly taken to be irreflexive: nothing grounds itself. Kit Fine has p...
Current views of metaphysical ground suggest that a true conjunction is immediately grounded in its ...
In this paper, I advance a lesser known counterfactual principle of grounding in a new kind of way b...
Fine’s Paradox, an insider critique of philosophical grounding, suggests that everything is grounded...
The aim of this paper is to introduce, elucidate and defend the usefulness of a variant of grounding...
In this paper we provide a psychological explanation for ‘grounding observations’—observations that ...
We show that any predicational theory of partial ground that extends a standard theory of ...
The Question of Iterated Grounding (QIG) asks what grounds the grounding facts. Although the questio...
Are grounding claims fully general in character? If an object a is F in virtue of being G, does it f...
The elucidations and regimentations of grounding offered in the literature standardly take it to be ...
This paper explores a middle way between realism and eliminativism about grounding. Grounding-talk i...
International audienceThe notion of grounding is usually conceived as an objective and explanatory r...
Metaphysical grounding is standardly taken to be irreflexive: nothing grounds itself. Kit Fine has p...
Current views of metaphysical ground suggest that a true conjunction is immediately grounded in its ...
In this paper, I advance a lesser known counterfactual principle of grounding in a new kind of way b...
Fine’s Paradox, an insider critique of philosophical grounding, suggests that everything is grounded...
The aim of this paper is to introduce, elucidate and defend the usefulness of a variant of grounding...
In this paper we provide a psychological explanation for ‘grounding observations’—observations that ...
We show that any predicational theory of partial ground that extends a standard theory of ...
The Question of Iterated Grounding (QIG) asks what grounds the grounding facts. Although the questio...
Are grounding claims fully general in character? If an object a is F in virtue of being G, does it f...
The elucidations and regimentations of grounding offered in the literature standardly take it to be ...
This paper explores a middle way between realism and eliminativism about grounding. Grounding-talk i...
International audienceThe notion of grounding is usually conceived as an objective and explanatory r...
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