Essentialism and Grounding
It has been claimed that the notions of essence and grounding, in their respective debates, are primitive, neither reducible to nor analysable into any other more basic notion. However, there seems to be interesting connections between them. And these connections are the ones I want to make explicit...
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FILOSOFIA350822019-01-24T00:25:42Z Essentialism and Grounding Cantero Flores, Víctor Essential property Necessity Grounding Principle of mediation Moorean connections It has been claimed that the notions of essence and grounding, in their respective debates, are primitive, neither reducible to nor analysable into any other more basic notion. However, there seems to be interesting connections between them. And these connections are the ones I want to make explicit in this paper. And more specifically, I want to discuss what Gideon Rosen calls the principle of Mediation: if the fact A is grounded in the fact B, then it lies in the nature of the things A and B, that A is so grounded. A difficulty for this principle is considered: the possibility of Moorean connections, that is, the possibility of some general principles that say that certain facts are grounded in some other facts, but cannot be explained by appeal to the essence of the things occurring in those facts. In light of these Moorean connections, I try to clarify the role the notion of essence has in an account of what grounds grounding relations. Universidad de Costa Rica 2018-10-31 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Contribution application/pdf https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/filosofia/article/view/35082 Revista de Filosofía de la Universidad de Costa Rica; Vol. 57 No. 147 (2018): Revista de Filosofía; 105-112 Revista de Filosofía de la Universidad de Costa Rica; Vol. 57 Núm. 147 (2018): Revista de Filosofía; 105-112 2215-5589 0034-8252 spa https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/filosofia/article/view/35082/34629 Derechos de autor 2018 Revista de Filosofía de la Universidad de Costa Rica |
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It has been claimed that the notions of essence and grounding, in their respective debates, are primitive, neither reducible to nor analysable into any other more basic notion. However, there seems to be interesting connections between them. And these connections are the ones I want to make explicit in this paper. And more specifically, I want to discuss what Gideon Rosen calls the principle of Mediation: if the fact A is grounded in the fact B, then it lies in the nature of the things A and B, that A is so grounded. A difficulty for this principle is considered: the possibility of Moorean connections, that is, the possibility of some general principles that say that certain facts are grounded in some other facts, but cannot be explained by appeal to the essence of the things occurring in those facts. In light of these Moorean connections, I try to clarify the role the notion of essence has in an account of what grounds grounding relations. |
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