GROUNDING: TOWARD A THEORY OF THE "IN-VIRTUE-OF" RELATION

Audi argues that people must recognize grounding as a distinct relation of determination, and say with as much precision as possible what grounding is and how the concept can be useful in philosophy. There are certain non-fundamental properties, properties that are never instantiated brutely, but always because some other properties are. It is in making sense of the force of this because that grounding earns its keep.