Journal of Philosophical Logic

, Volume 46, Issue 5, pp 507–538 | Cite as

An Impure Logic of Representational Grounding

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Abstract

I give a semantic characterisation of a system for the logic of grounding similar to the system introduced by Kit Fine in his “Guide to Ground”, as well as a semantic characterisation of a variant of that system which excludes the possibility of what Fine calls ‘zero-grounding’.

Keywords

Metaphysical grounding Truth-functions Logic of grounding 
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Acknowledgments

An earlier version of this paper was discussed at an eidos meeting in April 2014 at the University of Geneva, and I presented other versions of the paper at three workshops: Necessary Connections, Glasgow, May 2014, Recent Work on the Logic of Ground, Oslo, June 2014, and Logical and Metaphysical Perspectives on Grounding, Osnabrück, September 2015. I am grateful to the respective audiences, and also to two anonymous referees of this journal, for helpful comments and criticisms. This work was carried out while I was in charge of the Swiss National Science Foundation projects CRSII1-147685, 100012-150289, BSCGI0-157792 and 100012-159472, and of a module of the H2020 project MSCA-ITN-2015-675415. During that period, I was also a member of the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness project FFI2012-35026.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Institut de PhilosophieUniversité de NeuchâtelNeuchâtelSwitzerland

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