Setting the story straight: fictionalism about grounding

Setting the story straight: fictionalism about grounding

This paper explores a middle way between realism and eliminativism about grounding. Grounding-talk is intelligible and useful, but it fails to pick out grounding relations that exist or obtain in reality. Instead, grounding-talk allows us to convey facts about what metaphysically explains what, and...

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Veröffentlicht in:Philosophical studies 2022-02, Vol.179 (2), p.343-361
1. Verfasser: Thompson, Naomi
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
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Education
Epistemology
Ethics
Metaphysics
Philosophy
Philosophy of Language
Philosophy of Mind
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Zusammenfassung:This paper explores a middle way between realism and eliminativism about grounding. Grounding-talk is intelligible and useful, but it fails to pick out grounding relations that exist or obtain in reality. Instead, grounding-talk allows us to convey facts about what metaphysically explains what, and about the worldly dependence relations that give rise to those explanations.
ISSN:0031-8116
1573-0883
DOI:10.1007/s11098-021-01661-w