Setting the story straight: fictionalism about grounding
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Abstract This paper explores a middle way between realism and eliminativism about grounding. Grounding-talk is intelligible useful, but it fails to pick out grounding relations that exist or obtain in reality. Instead, grounding-talk allows us convey facts what metaphysically explains what, the worldly dependence give rise those explanations.
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عنوان ژورنال: Philosophical Studies
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['1573-0883', '0031-8116']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-021-01661-w