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'Metaphysics: the logical approach', 'The Question of Realism' and 'works'
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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 / 8. Stuff / a. Pure stuff
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Early pre-Socratics had a mass-noun ontology, which was replaced by count-nouns [Benardete,JA]
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