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[from 'Clarification and Defense of Grounding' by Paul Audi, in 7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 1. Grounding / a. Nature of grounding ]

Full Idea

On my view, grounding relations depend on the natures of the properties involved in them.

Gist of Idea

Ground relations depend on the properties

Source

Paul Audi (Clarification and Defense of Grounding [2012], 3.2)

Book Reference

'Metaphysical Grounding', ed/tr. Correia,F/Schnieder,B [CUP 2012], p.103


A Reaction

I'm cautious about this if we don't find out more exactly what properties are (and they had better not just be predicates). Maybe properties are the only apparatus we have here, though I prefer 'powers' for the fundamentals.