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Full Idea
What concept grounding does for us is ensure that our concepts, like the results of our empirical tests, can be treated as a source of information about the independent world.
Gist of Idea
We can learn about the world by studying the grounding of our concepts
Source
Carrie Jenkins (Grounding Concepts [2008], 4.4)
Book Ref
Jenkins,Carrie: 'Grounding Concepts' [OUP 2008], p.135
A Reaction
Presumably we learn our concepts hand-in-hand with experience, so learning our concepts is itself learning about the world. Later checking of concepts and their relations largely confirms what we already knew?
| 17262 | Aristotle's formal and material 'becauses' [aitiai] arguably involve grounding [Aristotle, by Correia/Schnieder] |
| 17265 | Philosophical proofs in mathematics establish truths, and also show their grounds [Bolzano, by Correia/Schnieder] |
| 14268 | Maybe bottom-up grounding shows constitution, and top-down grounding shows essence [Fine,K] |
| 17274 | Philosophical explanation is largely by ground (just as cause is used in science) [Fine,K] |
| 17290 | Only metaphysical grounding must be explained by essence [Fine,K] |
| 17727 | We can learn about the world by studying the grounding of our concepts [Jenkins] |
| 17296 | We must accept grounding, for our important explanations [Audi,P] |
| 17268 | Grounding is metaphysical and explanation epistemic, so keep them apart [Correia/Schnieder] |