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Single Idea 15007
[filed under theme 7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 1. Grounding / a. Nature of grounding
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Full Idea
My main objection to Fine's notion of grounding as fundamental is that it violates 'purity' - that fundamental truths should involve only fundamental notions.
Gist of Idea
If you make 'grounding' fundamental, you have to mention some non-fundamental notions
Source
comment on Kit Fine (The Question of Realism [2001]) by Theodore Sider - Writing the Book of the World 08.2
Book Ref
Sider,Theodore: 'Writing the Book of the World' [OUP 2011], p.144
A Reaction
[p.106 of Sider for 'purity'] The point here is that to define a grounding relation you have to mention the 'higher' levels of the relationship (as in a 'city' being grounded in physical stuff), which doesn't seem fundamental enough.
Related Idea
Idea 15006
Something is grounded when it holds, and is explained, and necessitated by something else [Fine,K, by Sider]
The
25 ideas
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[how we should understand the grounding relation]:
17186
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Men say they prefer order, not realising that we imagine the order
[Spinoza]
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21765
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The ground of a thing is not another thing, but the first thing's substance or rational concept
[Hegel, by Houlgate]
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23855
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Creation produced a network or web of determinations
[Weil]
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17272
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2+2=4 is necessary if it is snowing, but not true in virtue of the fact that it is snowing
[Fine,K]
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17276
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If you say one thing causes another, that leaves open that the 'other' has its own distinct reality
[Fine,K]
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17284
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An immediate ground is the next lower level, which gives the concept of a hierarchy
[Fine,K]
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17285
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'Strict' ground moves down the explanations, but 'weak' ground can move sideways
[Fine,K]
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17288
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We learn grounding from what is grounded, not what does the grounding
[Fine,K]
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15007
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If you make 'grounding' fundamental, you have to mention some non-fundamental notions
[Sider on Fine,K]
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15006
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Something is grounded when it holds, and is explained, and necessitated by something else
[Fine,K, by Sider]
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14262
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Formal grounding needs transitivity of grounding, no self-grounding, and the existence of both parties
[Fine,K]
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14097
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Things could be true 'in virtue of' others as relations between truths, or between truths and items
[Rosen]
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18472
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Which has priority - 'grounding' or 'truth-making'?
[MacBride]
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18471
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Different types of 'grounding' seem to have no more than a family resemblance relation
[MacBride]
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17304
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As causation links across time, grounding links the world across levels
[Schaffer,J]
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17306
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If ground is transitive and irreflexive, it has a strict partial ordering, giving structure
[Schaffer,J]
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13748
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Grounding is unanalysable and primitive, and is the basic structuring concept in metaphysics
[Schaffer,J]
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16598
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Priority was a major topic of dispute for scholastics
[Pasnau]
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17292
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Avoid 'in virtue of' for grounding, since it might imply a reflexive relation such as identity
[Audi,P]
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17295
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Ground relations depend on the properties
[Audi,P]
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17297
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A ball's being spherical non-causally determines its power to roll
[Audi,P]
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17302
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Ground is irreflexive, asymmetric, transitive, non-monotonic etc.
[Audi,P]
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17303
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The best critique of grounding says it is actually either identity or elimination
[Audi,P]
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17270
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Is existential dependence by grounding, or do grounding claims arise from existential dependence?
[Correia/Schnieder]
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23008
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Grounding is intended as a relation that fits dependences between things
[Baron/Miller]
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