2017/07/13 by Jon Erling Litland · 4 citations
Psychology · Computer Science · Arts and Humanities · #Philosophy and Theoretical Science #Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge #Classical Philosophy and Thought
paper · pdf · doi:10.1093/analys/anx116
Could φ’s partially grounding ψ itself be a partial ground for ψ? I show that it follows from commonly accepted principles in the logic of ground that this sometimes happens. It also follows from commonly accepted principles that this never happens. I show that this inconsistency turns on different principles than the puzzles of ground already discussed in the literature, and I propose a way of resolving the inconsistency.