The Fragmentation of Being
orderly way. And questions about the nature and status of ground cannot be arrived at without furtherfirst-order metaphysical sp ...
generic grounding and also many other grounding relations such that each of them is more specific than generic grounding in the ...
are innumerably many relations that satisfy the same formal principles as those grounding is purported to satisfy but are not re ...
whereas mere disjunctions are far less natural than their disjuncts, and while analo- gous features are less natural than their ...
In sections 8.2 and 8.3, we looked at two apparently competing views about the nature of grounding, one by Schaffer and Baumgart ...
grounder, focusing solely on relations between facts yields an impoverished view of ground. Conversely, the fact-grounder can un ...
some sense one of them is a metaphysical primitive is a different story. Neither proponent of their relation of ground might tak ...
more gruesome variant of it. Proponents of ground seem largely content to take the notion of ground as an ideological primitive ...
9. Being and Essence 9.1 Introduction The point of this chapter is to explore what sort of interesting connections there might b ...
essences modally essentially. Moreover, this claim is plausibly a consequence of the attempt to reduce modal necessity to that w ...
However, this isn’t obvious—one can believe that there are non-modal essences while denying that everything has one. Historicall ...
properties or stand in fundamental relations. A natural generalization of this prin- ciple is that metaphysically ground-floor n ...
“what it is to be”a conference just is for a bunch of individuals to interact in certain ways. This approach sounds initially pl ...
metaphysical theorizing. However, ifparthoodandgroundingare not perfectly natural properties or relations, then they might not h ...
Perhaps Avicenna held this view as well.^23 I am also inclined to attribute the view to Leibniz circa the period in which he acc ...
essence might support the epistemological view and vice versa. Recall that Descartes claims to discover the essence of extended ...
Finally,the existentialist view. On the existentialist view, true essentialist claims aboutxentail thatxhas some form of actual ...
In the next section, we will discuss whether essences are entities. We’ll see there that the nature of essences has implications ...
What is the relation between truth-making and grounding? Unclear! (Though as we saw in section 9.2, some believe that the notion ...
Although I am intrigued by Dasgupta’s proposal, Ifind his notion of being apt to be grounded obscure. Well, most metaphysics is ...
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