Meta-ground and Amalgamatiom
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4013/fsu.2026.271.06Keywords:
grounding, meta-ground, Amalgamation, groverlapping, disjunctive grounding.Abstract
Recently, there were several attempts (Rabin & Rabern (2016), Litland (2018), Berker (2018)) to prove that there are some cases in which the fact of the form [P grounds Q] could be itself a ground for Q. In the paper, I will consider the idea that we can prove that the fact that P grounds Q can be a ground for Q by giving up (Amalgamation) (if P grounds Q, and R grounds Q, then (P & R) grounds Q). I will provide the argument that if P and R are different facts such that P is a full ground for R, then grounding is amalgamating; I will also show that there are some cases in which we have that [P grounds Q] grounds Q, yet this fact fails to validate the popular view that P is a ground for [P grounds Q].
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