Properties and a Grounding Principle

Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 66 (10):2024-2036 (2023)
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In this paper, I advance a lesser known counterfactual principle of grounding in a new kind of way by appealing to properties and the work they do. I then show that this new way of arguing for this principle is superior to another way, describe some of the work this principle can do, defend my use of this principle, and conclude with remarks on why principles like it are needed.

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Noel Saenz
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The Taming of the Grounds.Noël Blas Saenz - 2022 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy 52 (8):789-809.

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