BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Grails iCalendar plugin//NONSGML Grails iCalendar plugin//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240329T052659Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20140605T050000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20140605T053000 SUMMARY:Grounding Questions UID:20240329T052659Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6f97df9687-7c6q9 TZID:America/Toronto LOCATION:Oslo\, Norway DESCRIPTION:
Statements like &ldquo\;Joan is a bachelorette in virtue of being an unmarried woman&rdquo\; are perplexing. \; On the one hand\, the above captures a compelling grounding claim. \;The fact that Joan is an unmarried woman grounds the fact that Joan is a bachelorette.  \;And because grounding is plausibly an irreflexive relation\, &ldquo\;Joan is a bachelorette&rdquo\; must be a distinct fact from &ldquo\;Joan is an unmarried woman.&rdquo\; \; Yet\, the following is a compelling identity claim: \; the fact that Joan is a bachelorette is the fact that Joan is an unmarried woman. \; So a tension arises. \; We must reject one of the following: the grounding claim\, certain structural features of ground\, or the identity claim.I formulated the tension above in terms of a fact-based approach to ground\, but I will explain how these cases cause tension both for proponents of fact-based and sentential operator-based accounts of ground. \; Then I will discuss one way of relieving the tension by appealing to essences. \; The straightforward appeal to essences is problematic because it is difficult to incorporate this treatment of essences into our account of ground.I will offer a new proposal which rejects the grounding claim above but defends a grounding relationship in the vicinity. \; I will argue that we can incorporate essences into a grounding framework by focusing on the nature of \;questions \;concerning essences. \; Questions and answers stand in an explanatory relationship much like the one grounded claims stand in to their grounds and\, furthermore\, I will suggest that it makes sense to count the relationship between a question and an answer as a type of grounding.
ORGANIZER;CN=Jon Erling Litland: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR