Unified foundations for essence and ground

Kit Fine

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Abstract

I argue in favor of a distinctive generic form of essence and ground and show how the two notions thereby complement one another as forms of necessary and sufficient condition.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)296 - 311
Number of pages16
JournalJournal of the American Philosophical Association
Volume1
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 19 Jun 2015

Keywords

  • Contingency
  • Fitch’s paradox
  • Ignorance
  • Indeterminacy
  • Knowledge
  • Modal logic
  • metaphysics
  • metametaphysics
  • philosophical logic
  • essence
  • ground
  • generic

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Philosophy
  • Social Sciences(all)

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