Is Generalised Identity a Basis for Essence and Grounding?
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- Ralf Busse
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- Is Generalised Identity a Basis for Essence and Grounding?
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- While many philosophers, most notably K. Fine, embrace essence and grounding as primitive no-tions, F. Correia and A. Skiles offer an analysis in a framework of generalised identity, or quasi-identity, as I call it. The basic idea is to construe an essential feature as a conjunctive part and a ground as a disjunctive part of the target item. This paper has a critical and a diagnostic and pro-grammatic part. In the critical part, I argue that grounding (as well as essence) cannot be based on quasi-identity, because the latter relation cannot endow grounding with its determinative and ex-planatory character. In my diagnosis, I highlight two insights that can be drawn from this critical investigation and sketch a program for an integrated view of grounding and essence based on them. First, while grounding canned be analysed by a logical framework of the kind suggested by Correia and Skiles, the general “big G” relation of grounding is based as a determinable relation on its determinates, namely, the specific or “small g” grounding relations. Logical conjoining and disjoining are just two determinate grounding operations among many. Secondly, identity and quasi-identity are important notions of metaphysics, not because essence and grounding can be defined in terms them, but because they are needed to extent transparent statements of grounding (such as that H2O is grounded by O and H) to opaque grounding statements (such as that water is grounded by O and H). Finally, it is suggested that essence pertains to features that are constant across all possible ways for the target item to be grounded.
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- Ralf Busse
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- 2024
- Titel
- Is Generalised Identity a Basis for Essence and Grounding?
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