Ground by Status

2024/01/22 by Lisa Vogt · 1 citation
Psychology · Neuroscience · Arts and Humanities · #Philosophy and Theoretical Science #Free Will and Agency #Philosophical Ethics and Theory

paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/s11098-023-02093-4

Abstract

Abstract What is the explanatory role of ‘status-truths’ such as essence-truths, necessity-truths and law-truths? A plausible principle, suggested by various authors, is Ground by Status , according to which status truths ground their prejacents. For instance, if it is essential to a that p , then this grounds the fact that p . But Ground by Status faces a forceful objection: it is inconsistent with widely accepted principles regarding the logic of grounding (Glazier in Philos Stud 174(11):2871–2889, 2017a, Synthese 174(198):1409–1424, 2017b; Kappes in Synthese 199(1–2):2575–2595, 2020, Philos Stud 178(4):1267–1284, 2021). I defend Ground by Status against this objection.

Citations

• Grounding, Essence, and Identity
• Explaining contingent facts
• Mathematical Logic as Based on the Theory of Types

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