Debunking Logical Ground
Distinguishing Metaphysics from Semantics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21876546 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michaela Markham McSweeney (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 156-170 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the American Philosophical Association (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2053-4477 • E-ISSN: 2053-4485 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/apa.2019.40 |
| OpenAlex | W3017933382 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 34 |
Many philosophers take purportedly logical cases of ground (such as a true disjunction being grounded in its true disjunct(s)) to be obvious cases, and indeed such cases have been used to motivate the existence of and importance of ground. I argue against this. I do so by motivating two kinds of semantic determination relations. Intuitions of logical ground track these semantic relations. Moreover, our knowledge of semantics for (e.g.) first order logic can explain why we have such intuitions. And, I argue, neither semantic relation can be a species of ground even on a quite broad conception of what ground is. Hence, without a positive argument for taking so-called ‘logical ground’ to be something distinct from a semantic determination relation, we should cease treating logical cases as cases of ground
Common ground · Computational semantics · Epistemology · Figure–ground · Logical consequence · Metaphysics · Operational semantics · Programming language · Proof-theoretic semantics · Communication · Computer Science · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge · Philosophy · Philosophy and Theoretical Science · Psychology
Disjunction and the Logic of Grounding
The oldest solution to the circularity problem for Humeanism about the laws of nature
Abstraction and grounding
Metaphysical Grounding
Grounding Functionalism and Explanatory Unificationism
Some Spanners in the Works of Grounding Mechanisms Removed
The Taming of the Grounds
There Is No Distinctively Semantic Circularity Objection to Humean Laws
Is generalised identity a basis for essence and grounding
Grounding objectivity
Mind-Dependence in Berkeley and the Problem of Perception
Ground first
The cost of closure
Explanatory Distance
Existential Dependence and Cognate Notions
The coarse-grainedness of grounding
Some Puzzles of Ground
Guide to ground
Metaphysical Dependence
Grounding, transitivity, and contrastivity
No Work for a Theory of Grounding
On What Grounds What
Is Metaphysical Dependence Irreflexive?
Grounding
Ambitious, Yet Modest, Metaphysics
Curbing Enthusiasm About Grounding
An Epistemic Account Of Metaphysical Equivalence1
How scientific models can explain
On defining the notion of complete and immediate formal grounding
On constructing a logic for the notion of complete and immediate formal grounding
Representing and Explaining
Why Truthmaking Is Not a Case of Grounding
Laws of Nature, Explanation, and Semantic Circularity
| Citations per year | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |