The Logic of Grounding
Fabrice Correia, "The Logic of Grounding "
English | ISBN: 1009180517 | 2025 | 75 pages | PDF | 1204 KB
English | ISBN: 1009180517 | 2025 | 75 pages | PDF | 1204 KB
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.