The Unity of Dependence

Abstract Most philosophers treat ontological dependence and metaphysical as distinct relations. A number of key differences between the two relations are usually cited in support this claim: dependence's unique connection to existence, differing respective connections necessitation, a divergence their formal features. Alongside reshaping some examples used maintain distinction two, I argue that additional resources offered by increased attention notion grounding has received recent years potentially offer us way unite relations, promising attendant benefits parsimony offers, result.