Contingent grounding
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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.
Date issued
2021-01Journal
Synthese
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Citation
Baron-Schmitt, Nathaniel. 2021. "Contingent grounding."
Version: Author's final manuscript
ISSN
1573-0964
0039-7857