Grounds for agreement

Coffee: grounds for concern?

C aff eine is the most widely ingested nonregulated substance on earth. A major portion of this drug is consumed as coff ee, with an annual production of over 7.8 million metric tons. Over 2.5 billion cups of coff ee are consumed worldwide each day. Given its popularity, it is hard to conceive of how Western civilization might begin each workday without this critical liquid allotment. Despite t...

New Grounds for Drinking Coffee

Follicular lymphoma: grounds for optimism.

The fact that follicular lymphoma is characterized by a specific immune phenotype and a nonrandom chromosomal translocation which may be detected at the molecular level makes it possible to design novel therapeutic strategies for curative therapy. Molecular markers may be used to test hypotheses. Some current causes for optimism are reviewed.

Qualitative Grounds

Suppose that all non-qualitative facts are grounded in qualitative facts. I argue that this view naturally comes with a picture in which trans-world identity is indeterminate. But this in turn leads to either pervasive indeterminacy in the non-qualitative, or else contingency in what facts about modality and possible worlds are determinate. 1 Ground and Necessity Shamik Dasgupta argues that we ...

Logical grounds

The view that some facts obtain in virtue of other facts is both natural and plausible. Causal examples come to mind: if an event e caused an event f , then it sounds correct to say that the fact that f occurred obtains in virtue of the fact that e occurred—or, to put it in a less cumbersome way, that f occurred because e occurred. But many noncausal cases also come to mind, as illustrated, for...