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18471 | Different types of 'grounding' seem to have no more than a family resemblance relation [MacBride] |
Full Idea: The concept of 'grounding' appears to cry out for treatment as a family resemblance concept, a concept whose instances have no more in common than different games do. | |
From: Fraser MacBride (Truthmakers [2013], 1.6) | |
A reaction: I like the word 'determinations', though MacBride's point my also apply to that. I take causation to be one species of determination, and truth-making to be another. They form a real family, with no adoptees. |
18472 | Which has priority - 'grounding' or 'truth-making'? [MacBride] |
Full Idea: Some philosophers define 'grounding' in terms of 'truth-making', rather than the other way around. | |
From: Fraser MacBride (Truthmakers [2013], 1.6) | |
A reaction: [Cameron exemplifies the first, and Schaffer the second] I would have thought that grounding was in the world, but truth-making required the introduction of propositions about the world by minds, so grounding is prior. Schaffer is right. |
18475 | Russell allows some complex facts, but Wittgenstein only allows atomic facts [MacBride] |
Full Idea: The logical atomism of Russell admitted some logically complex facts but not others - in contrast to Wittgenstein's version which admitted only atomic facts. | |
From: Fraser MacBride (Truthmakers [2013], 2.1.3) | |
A reaction: For truthmakers, it looks as if the Wittgenstein version might do a better job (e.g. with negative truths). I quite like the Russell approach, where complex facts underwrite the logical connectives. Disjunctive, negative, conjunctive, hypothetical facts. |
17436 | We talk of snow as what stays the same, when it is a heap or drift or expanse [Koslicki] |
Full Idea: Talk of snow concerns what stays the same when some snow changes, as it might be, from a heap of snow to a drift, to an expanse. | |
From: Kathrin Koslicki (Isolation and Non-arbitrary Division [1997], 2.2) | |
A reaction: The whiteness also stays the same, but isn't stuff. |