2020/05/10 by Stephan Krämer · 1 citation
Psychology · Computer Science · Arts and Humanities · #Philosophy and Theoretical Science #Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge #Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics
paper · pdf · doi:10.1111/phpr.12692
Abstract I identify a problem for Kit Fine’s truthmaker semantics for ground: it excludes a range of plausible structures of grounding hierarchies. Specifically, there is an attractive view about the grounds of the existence of individual singleton sets which is inconsistent under the truthmaker account. I then develop a modification of the truthmaker account which avoids this difficulty and show that it preserves most of the desirable features of the original account, such as the propositional logic of ground it yields.