A Simple Proof of Grounding Internality

Lovett, Adam

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“…There are principled ways rejecting (∨-grounding). deRosset (2021) does so by rejecting the (standard) notion of immediate ground; Lovett (2019Lovett ( , 2020 does so by adopting a more coarse-grained conception of proposition. Woods (2018) and Correia (2014) develop accounts that reject (Irreflexivity).…”

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Ground first: against the proof-theoretic definition of ground

Litland

2023

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Section: (Aristotle's Principle) If T P Then P [T P]mentioning

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Ground first: against the proof-theoretic definition of ground

Litland

2023

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“…Admittedly, both the principle and the counterexamples deserve more space for discussion than I can provide here. Recently, Lovett (2019) is also true in w 2 , even though a 3 does not exist in this world! In general, any expansion of the explanans with a further disjunct of the form x = a , for a a name of a possible existent distinct from b, will explain why b does not exist in such a world (provided that possibly a exists and b does not).…”

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The Ground of All Negative Existential Truths

Rizzo

2020

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A natural proposal for the grounds of negative existential truths, such as that Vulcan does not exist, states that these truths are grounded in the totality truth affirming the existence of every existent thing together with the truth that they are all. In this paper I will put forward three objections to straightforward formulations of this idea, and argue that a change in the usual grammar of grounding claims, allowing for pluralities of sentences to express not only grounds, but also groundees, is effective in making the account immune to the objections raised.

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Grounding, necessity, and relevance

Hirèche

2023

Philos Stud

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Grounding necessitarianism (GN) is the view that full grounds necessitate what they ground. Although GN has been rather popular among philosophers, it faces important counterexamples: For instance, A = [Socrates died] fully grounds C = [Xanthippe became a widow]. However, A fails to necessitate C: A could have obtained together with B = [Socrates and Xanthippe were never married], without C obtaining. In many cases, the debate essentially reduces to whether A indeed fully grounds C–as the contingentist claims–or if instead C is fully grounded in A+, namely A plus some supplementary fact S (e.g. [Xanthippe was married to Socrates])–as the necessitarian claims. Both sides typically agree that A+ necessitates C, while A does not; they disagree on whether A or A+ fully grounds C. This paper offers a novel defence of the claim that, in these typical cases, unlike A+, A fails to fully ground C–thereby bringing further support to GN. First and foremost, unlike A+, A fails to fully ground C because it fails to contain just what is relevant to do so, in two distinct senses–explanatory and generative relevance. Second, going for A, rather than A+, as a full ground undermines not just grounding necessitarianism, but modally weaker views which even contingentists may want to preserve.

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A Simple Proof of Grounding Internality

Abstract: Some people think that grounding is a type of identity. And some people think that grounding connections hold necessarily. I show that, under plausible assumptions, if grounding is a type of identity, then grounding connections hold necessarily.

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Ground first: against the proof-theoretic definition of ground

Ground first: against the proof-theoretic definition of ground

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Grounding, necessity, and relevance

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