Grounding grounds necessity

Rizzo, Julio De

doi:10.1093/analys/anz083

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“…43. For further productive discussion of the differential modal import of being fundamental/ungrounded and being zero grounded, see De Rizzo [2020]. 44.…”

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Essentialist Non-Reductivism

Miller

2023

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According to many contemporary metaphysicians, we ought to theorize in terms of grounding because of its promise to explicate the idea of reality having a layered structure. However, a tension emerges when one combines the layered structure view with the view that higher-level facts are not reducible to lower level facts. This tension emerges from two problems. The first problem arises from the fact that grounding explanations entail true universal generalizations. In order to satisfy this constraint, we will face serious pressure to make sure the entities involved in the grounded facts are appropriately connected to the entities involved in the grounding facts, otherwise the generalizations associated with those grounding claims will come out false. However, ensuring the appropriate connections seemingly leaves no way for the non-reductivist to fully squeeze out reference to higher-level entities as we descend the levels of ground. This threatens the result that some higher-level facts must be taken as fundamental, which the non-reductivist cannot accept. I’ll argue that we can resolve the tension by taking the connections at issue to be essentially true. We can call this view essentialist non-reductivism. One significant upshot of the argument is that we can see not only that essentialist non-reductivism successfully resolves the tension, but that in principle no better solution could be offered.

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“…43. For further productive discussion of the differential modal import of being fundamental/ungrounded and being zero grounded, see De Rizzo [2020]. 44.…”

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Essentialist Non-Reductivism

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2023

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“…See footnote [26]. 35 For further productive discussion of the differential modal import of being fundamental/ungrounded and being zero-grounded, see De Rizzo [2020].…”

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Nothing explains essence

Miller

2023

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“…A prominent application of the notion is Litland's (2017) account of the grounds of ground, according to which certain grounding claims are zero-grounded. Notably, Litland motivates the idea of empty-base explanations via the notion of explanatory arguments, by first arguing for certain conditions under which arguments are explanatory and then arguing that certain arguments with zero premises satisfy these conditions (for further applications of the notion see Muñoz [2020] on nonexistence, De Rizzo [2020] on necessity, and Kappes [2020b] on logical theorems).…”

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Self-Explanation and Empty-Base Explanation

Kappes

2022

J. of the Am. Philos. Assoc.

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This paper explores a novel notion of self-explanation that combines ideas from two sources: (1) the tripartite account of explanation, according to which a proposition can help explain another either in the capacity of a reason why the latter obtains or in the capacity of an explanatory link, and (2) the notion of an empty-base explanation, which generalizes the ideas of explanation by zero-grounding and explanation by status. After having introduced these ideas and the novel notion of self-explanation, I argue that the latter has the potential to resist extant arguments against the possibility of self-explanation. In the remainder of the paper, I discuss candidates for such self-explanatory propositions and suggest possible applications for Humeanism about laws of nature, the debate on the grounds of ground, the rationalist tradition, and philosophical theology.

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Grounding grounds necessity

Abstract: Drawing from extensions of existing ideas in the logic of ground, a novel account of the grounds of necessity is presented, the core of which states that necessary truths are necessary because they stand in specific grounding connections.

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