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Contingent grounding

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Baron-Schmitt, Nathaniel
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Abstract A popular principle about grounding, “Internality”, says that if A grounds B, then necessarily, if A and B obtain, then A grounds B. I argue that Internality is false. Its falsity reveals a distinctive, new kind of explanation, which I call “ennobling”. Its falsity also entails that every previously proposed theory of what grounds grounding facts is false. I construct a new theory.
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2021-01-09
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Springer Netherlands
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Baron-Schmitt, Nathaniel. 2021. "Contingent grounding."
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