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Worldly Grounding and the Puzzles

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: Starting with Kit Fine's article "Some Puzzles of Ground" (2010), grounding has been argued to give rise to serious puzzles. The way the puzzles should be handled, I contend, depends on whether the concepts of grounding involved in the puzzles are worldly or representational. Here I focus on worldly grounding, and I argue that the formally best understood worldly concepts of worldly grounding, which I dub "weak-first", escape all the currently known puzzles, including new puzzles that I introduce in due course.

Source: Philosophical Studies

DOI: 10.1007/s11098-025-02378-w

Author: Fabrice Correia

Institution: University of Geneva

Language: English

Topic: Philosophy and Theoretical Science

Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $3,190

Funders: National Science Foundation, Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung, Université de Genève