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.
Gist of Idea
Grounding is unanalysable and primitive, and is the basic structuring concept in metaphysics
Source
Jonathan Schaffer (On What Grounds What [2009], 2.2)
Book Reference
'Metametaphysics', ed/tr. Chalmers/Manley/Wasserman [OUP 2009], p.364
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.