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Synthese, volume 199, issue 1-2, pages 4561-4580

Contingent grounding

Publication type: Journal Article
Publication date: 2021-01-09
Journal: Synthese
scimago Q1
SJR: 0.932
CiteScore: 3.3
Impact factor: 1.3
ISSN: 00397857, 15730964, 11114924, 23529717
General Social Sciences
Philosophy
Abstract
A popular principle about grounding, “Internality”, says that if A grounds B, then necessarily, if A and B obtain, then A grounds B. I argue that Internality is false. Its falsity reveals a distinctive, new kind of explanation, which I call “ennobling”. Its falsity also entails that every previously proposed theory of what grounds grounding facts is false. I construct a new theory.
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