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Grounding (Philosophy)


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    • Metaphysical grounding
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    • found: Work cat: Thomas, Mark J. Freedom and ground : a study of Schelling's Treatise on freedom:("Ground" is...the key term for two very different currents in German thought: (1) a rationalist current concerned with providing reasons and (2) a mystical current concerned with revealing what is hidden from our everyday ways of thinking) (DLC) 2022037693
    • found: Work cat: Lautman, A. Mathematics, ideas and the physical real:page 202 (Heidegger identifies the grounding, rational activity of founding (Begründung), which is knowledge by Ideas, and the creative activity of foundation (Gründung) which constitutes, in the complexity of its internal relations, the world of the entity)
    • found: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online:(Metaphysical grounding, Schaffer writes that "metaphysics is about what grounds what")
    • found: Saenz, Noel B. "A Grounding Solution to the Grounding Problem" in Philosophical Studies: An International Journal of Philosophy in the Analytic Tradition, August 2015, vol. 172, No. 8, pp. 2193-2214:(Grounding is the kind of relation that is referred to in the following kinds of claims: truth is grounded in reality, wholes in their parts, moral properties in natural properties, modal properties in categorical properties, etc.)
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    • [Established July 2023.]
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    • 2023-02-01: new
    • 2023-07-05: revised
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