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Metaphysically Opaque Grounding
Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of Philosophy, Theoreretical Philosophy.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9696-5891
2023 (English)In: Canadian journal of philosophy, ISSN 0045-5091, E-ISSN 1911-0820, p. 1-17Article in journal (Refereed) Epub ahead of print
Abstract [en]

This article explores the concept of metaphysically opaque grounding, a largely neglected form of metaphysical grounding that challenges the commonly held assumptions that grounding is an especially intimate and powerful connection between facts and that it is necessarily connected with the essences of things. I provide a definition of opaque grounding, identify some interesting philosophical views that are committed to it, and explore some consequences for the general theory of grounding. Finally, I briefly address some natural initial doubts about opaque grounding and find them unwarranted. The upshot is that the notion deserves more attention than it has previously received.

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2023. p. 1-17
Keywords [en]
Grounding, Essence, Fundamentality, Metaphysical explanation, Building, Reduction
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Philosophy
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Theoretical Philosophy
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URN: urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-502234DOI: 10.1017/can.2023.11OAI: oai:DiVA.org:uu-502234DiVA, id: diva2:1758656
Available from: 2023-05-23 Created: 2023-05-23 Last updated: 2023-05-23

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