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Ground first: against the proof-theoretic definition of ground
This paper evaluates the proof-theoretic definition of ground developed by Poggiolesi in a range of recent publications and argues that her proposed...
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Ground by Status
What is the explanatory role of ‘status-truths’ such as essence-truths, necessity-truths and law-truths? A plausible principle, suggested by various...
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Ground in Avicenna’s Logic
Kit Fine articulates a notion of ground as a type of explanation by metaphysical constitution—a notion that happens to fit Avicenna’s conception of...
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Scientific explanation as a guide to ground
Ground is all the rage in contemporary metaphysics. But what is its nature? Some metaphysicians defend what we could call, following Skiles and...
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Symmetries and ground
If the tiles of a mosaic are arranged symmetrically, then the image those tiles constitute must be symmetric as well. This paper formulates and...
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How to be a Monist about Ground: A Guide for Pluralists
Is there one univocal or generic notion of ground? Monists answer yes, while pluralists answer no. Pluralists argue that monism cannot meet plausible...
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Truthmaker Semantics, Ground, and Generality
Our aim in this paper is to extend the semantics for the kind of logic of ground developed in deRosset and Fine (
2023 ). In that paper, the authors... -
Relevant entailment and logical ground
According to an intuitive picture of relevant entailment, an entailment is relevant if all the formulas it contains contribute to its validity. In...
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A Semantic Framework for the Impure Logic of Ground
There is a curious bifurcation in the literature on ground and its logic. On the one hand, there has been a great deal of work that presumes that...
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Building Common Ground: How Facilitators Bridge Between Diverging Groups in Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue
The effectiveness of multi-stakeholder initiatives (MSIs) in tackling grand social and environmental challenges depends on productive dialogue among...
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A Semantics for the Impure Logic of Ground
This paper establishes a sound and complete semantics for the impure logic of ground. Fine ( Review of Symbolic Logic , 5(1), 1–25,
2012a ) sets out a... -
Structured propositions and a semantics for unrestricted impure logics of ground
I show that the assumption of highly structured propositions can be leveraged to provide a unified semantics for various propositional logics of...
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Anthropological Phenomenology and the Eventive Ground
This chapter theorizes the phenomenological potential of anthropology through an examination of what we will call the “eventive ground” of...
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Methodological reductionism or methodological dualism? In search of a middle ground
The contrasts between so-called objective and subjective measures of consciousness have been a dominating topic of discussion for decades. The debate...
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On the Dynamic Relations Between Common Ground and Presupposition
The common ground theory of presupposition has been dominant since the seventies (Stalnaker. Semantics and philosophy. New York: New York University...
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Activating, Seeking and Creating Common Ground: A Socio-Cognitive Approach
This paper argues that current pragmatic theories fail to describe common ground in its complexity because they usually retain a...
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Common Ground in Non-face-to-face Communication: In Sensu Diviso or In Sensu Composito
Traditional definitions of common ground in terms of iterative de re attitudes do not apply to conversations where at least one conversational...
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Science, assertion, and the common ground
I argue that the appropriateness of an assertion is sensitive to context—or, really, the “common ground”—in a way that hasn’t previously been...
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The Metalogic of Ground: Pure and Iterative Systems
I develop a graph-theoretic model theory for pure and iterative grounding logics.
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Infinitism: rival or common ground in answering the epistemic regress?
Infinitism is often presented as a rival to foundationalism and coherentism as available answers to the epistemic regress problem. The most prominent...