Setting the story straight: fictionalism about grounding
Setting the story straight: fictionalism about grounding
This paper explores a middle way between realism and eliminativism about grounding. Grounding-talk is intelligible and useful, but it fails to pick out grounding relations that exist or obtain in reality. Instead, grounding-talk allows us to convey facts about what metaphysically explains what, and about the worldly dependence relations that give rise to those explanations.
Fictionalism, Grounding, Metaphysical explanation
Thompson, Naomi
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5 June 2021
Thompson, Naomi
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Abstract
This paper explores a middle way between realism and eliminativism about grounding. Grounding-talk is intelligible and useful, but it fails to pick out grounding relations that exist or obtain in reality. Instead, grounding-talk allows us to convey facts about what metaphysically explains what, and about the worldly dependence relations that give rise to those explanations.
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Accepted/In Press date: 17 May 2021
e-pub ahead of print date: 5 June 2021
Published date: 5 June 2021
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Work on this paper was funded by a grant from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond.
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Fictionalism, Grounding, Metaphysical explanation
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/449546
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