2017
DOI: 10.1111/phpr.12468
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Grounding, Essence, and Identity

Abstract: Recent metaphysics has turned its focus to two notions that are-as well as having a common Aristotelian pedigree-widely thought to be intimately related: grounding and essence. Yet how, exactly, the two are related remains opaque. We develop a unified and uniform account of grounding and essence, one which understands them both in terms of a generalized notion of identity examined in recent work by Fabrice Correia, Cian Dorr, Agustín Rayo, and others. We argue that the account comports with antecedently plausi… Show more

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“…So it seems reasonable that ⊞ = s = s , just as ⊞ ∨, ¬ ϕ ∨ ¬ ϕ . It is also compelling, at least to some, that ⊞ s s = s , quite independently of the first claim (Correia and Skiles , 11). So, there is some wholely logical truth that is essential to some non‐logical items, even if it is independently essential to some logical items.…”
Section: Skeptical Considerationsmentioning
confidence: 97%
“…So it seems reasonable that ⊞ = s = s , just as ⊞ ∨, ¬ ϕ ∨ ¬ ϕ . It is also compelling, at least to some, that ⊞ s s = s , quite independently of the first claim (Correia and Skiles , 11). So, there is some wholely logical truth that is essential to some non‐logical items, even if it is independently essential to some logical items.…”
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confidence: 97%
“…In particular, grounded facts are disjuncts of the facts they ground. Correia and Skiles () argue for this view. They argue that A grounds B just in case there's some C such that A just is A C. (Correia , pp.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…This kind of proof comes from Correia and Skiles (, p. 19). But, for novelties sake, the two are a little different: they rely on the symmetry rather than the transitivity of identification.…”
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“…5 Essence can here be understood as primitive (Fine 1994a(Fine , b, 1995a, or in non-modal terms (e.g. via generalized identity, as in Correia and Skiles 2017). 6 For example, see Fine (1994aFine ( , b, 1995aFine ( , b, 2000Fine ( , 2015, Correia (2006Correia ( , 2007Correia ( , 2012Correia ( , 2013, Lowe (2008Lowe ( , 2012a, Oderberg (2007), and Shalkowski (2008).…”
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