Setting the story straight: fictionalism about grounding

Naomi Thompson

doi:10.1007/s11098-021-01661-w

Setting the story straight: fictionalism about grounding

Naomi Thompson

Department of Philosophy

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	343-361
Number of pages	19
Journal	Philosophical Studies
Volume	179
Early online date	5 Jun 2021
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-021-01661-w
Publication status	Published - Feb 2022

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