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'Commentary on 'De Anima'', 'The Question of Realism' and 'Postscripts on supervenience'
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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 1. Grounding / a. Nature of grounding
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If you make 'grounding' fundamental, you have to mention some non-fundamental notions [Sider on Fine,K]
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Something is grounded when it holds, and is explained, and necessitated by something else [Fine,K, by Sider]
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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 1. Grounding / b. Relata of grounding
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Grounding relations are best expressed as relations between sentences [Fine,K]
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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 2. Reduction
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Reduction might be producing a sentence which gets closer to the logical form [Fine,K]
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Reduction might be semantic, where a reduced sentence is understood through its reduction [Fine,K]
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Reduction is modal, if the reductions necessarily entail the truth of the target sentence [Fine,K]
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The notion of reduction (unlike that of 'ground') implies the unreality of what is reduced [Fine,K]
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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / c. Significance of supervenience
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Supervenience is not a dependence relation, on the lines of causal, mereological or semantic dependence [Kim]
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Supervenience is just a 'surface' relation of pattern covariation, which still needs deeper explanation [Kim]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 3. Reality
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Reality is a primitive metaphysical concept, which cannot be understood in other terms [Fine,K]
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Why should what is explanatorily basic be therefore more real? [Fine,K]
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In metaphysics, reality is regarded as either 'factual', or as 'fundamental' [Fine,K]
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What is real can only be settled in terms of 'ground' [Fine,K]
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