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Ideas for 'Model Theory', 'On What Grounds What' and 'Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong'

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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 1. Grounding / a. Nature of grounding

13748	Grounding is unanalysable and primitive, and is the basic structuring concept in metaphysics [Schaffer,J]
	Full Idea: Grounding should be taken as primitive, as per the neo-Aristotelian approach. Grounding is an unanalyzable but needed notion - it is the primitive structuring conception of metaphysics.
	From: Jonathan Schaffer (On What Grounds What [2009], 2.2)
	A reaction: [he cites K.Fine 1991] I find that this simple claim clarifies the discussions of Kit Fine, where you are not always quite sure what the game is. I agree fully with it. It makes metaphysics interesting, where cataloguing entities is boring.

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / a. Nature of supervenience

13747	Supervenience is just modal correlation [Schaffer,J]
	Full Idea: Supervenience is mere modal correlation.
	From: Jonathan Schaffer (On What Grounds What [2009], 2.2)

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 7. Abstract/Concrete / a. Abstract/concrete

13744	The cosmos is the only fundamental entity, from which all else exists by abstraction [Schaffer,J]
	Full Idea: My preferred view is that there is only one fundamental entity - the whole concrete cosmos - from which all else exists by abstraction.
	From: Jonathan Schaffer (On What Grounds What [2009], 2.1)
	A reaction: This looks to me like weak anti-realism - that there are no natural 'joints' in nature - but I don't think Schaffer intends that. I take the joints to be fundamentals, which necessitates that the cosmos has parts. His 'abstraction' is clearly a process.