The Fragmentation of Being
explorations to be definitive in advance of furtherfirst-order metaphysical inquiry. This will hopefully become clearer in what ...
8.2 Entity Grounding My plan for this section is to present an overview of Schaffer’s views, discuss the status of ground as an ...
separate Schaffer’s views about grounding per se from his applications of that notion in his metaphysical system. This won’t alw ...
in any other properties and relations from those that are. Call the former properties and relationsultimate. Is grounding ultima ...
proponents of tropes do not accept facts as well into their metaphysics.^22 Let us consider a fact-free trope view. So instead o ...
enjoying a fundamental mode of being. However, it is a view I recommend to the proponents of grounding to consider. The notion o ...
parts.^26 (Intermediate cases are possible: perhaps artifacts are more real than their arbitrary undetached parts but less real ...
following:x grounds yif and only ifxis more real thanyand either (i)xinstantiatesy or (ii)yis an event involvingx. In general, t ...
What about the question of the ground of grounding? Assume that grounding is a universal. Perhaps one connective relation betwee ...
in which we addressed whether naturalness and degree of being are the same phenomenon under distinct guises. My inclination in t ...
relationship betweenxandymight fail to obtain. We can’t assess this question without examining also what the correct metaphysics ...
be resisted! Those committed to grounding should make sure that they have an adequate theory of propositions that accords with t ...
are intuitively the implementation of the grounding relation. In general, small-g grounding relations induce big-G grounding, an ...
potentially a weakness with the proposal. Alex Skiles has suggested to me in personal communication a more moderate response. He ...
notion of ground are closely tied together in the minds of grounding theorists, I’d prefer not to appeal to the notion of explan ...
Another possibility is that (some of) the contemporary authors Wilson alludes to are not implicitly quantifying over specific re ...
picture of fundamentality I prefer, grounding itself might still be a highly natural relation. But given the role that degree of ...
will henceforth be calledstrict essence.^51 Fine’s now stock example is this: Socrates and Socrates’s singleton exist in all the ...
various people have acted in a certain way grounds the fact that there is a conference. When pressed to what grounds this ground ...
But I think this is OK. It might be that disjunctions are always grounded in their disjuncts, and in fact the full analysis of g ...
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