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Series:   Elements in Philosophy and Logic

The Logic of Grounding

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 December 2024

Fabrice Correia
Fabrice Correia
Affiliation:
University of Geneva

Summary

The concept of grounding – of a fact obtaining in virtue of other facts – has been a topic of intensive philosophical and logical investigation over roughly the past two decades. Many philosophers take grounding to deserve a central place in metaphysical theorizing, in great part because it is thought to do a better job than other concepts – e.g., reduction and supervenience – at capturing certain phenomena. Studies on the logic of grounding have largely been conducted with this philosophical background in mind. In this Element, I try to give a faithful picture of the contemporary development of the logic of grounding in a way that is both reasonably comprehensive and reasonably systematic.
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logic of groundingmetaphysical groundingmetaphysical explanationmetaphysical equivalencepuzzles of grounding
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Series: Elements in Philosophy and Logic
Online ISBN: 9781009180504
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication: 16 January 2025

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