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Full Idea
It is the fact to be grounded that 'points' to its ground and not the grounds that point to what they ground.
Gist of Idea
We learn grounding from what is grounded, not what does the grounding
Source
Kit Fine (Guide to Ground [2012], 1.11)
Book Ref
'Metaphysical Grounding', ed/tr. Correia,F/Schnieder,B [CUP 2012], p.76
A Reaction
What does the grounding may ground all sorts of other things, but what is grounded only has one 'full' (as opposed to 'partial', in Fine's terminology) ground. He says this leads to a 'top-down' approach to the study of grounds.