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DTSTAMP:20260619T113553Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20140605T050000
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SUMMARY:Grounding Questions
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LOCATION:Oslo\, Norway
DESCRIPTION:<p>Statements like &ldquo\;Joan is a bachelorette in virtue of being an unmarried woman&rdquo\; are perplexing.&nbsp\; On the one hand\, the above captures a compelling grounding claim.&nbsp\;The fact that Joan is an unmarried woman grounds the fact that Joan is a bachelorette. &nbsp\;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\;&nbsp\; Yet\, the following is a compelling identity claim:&nbsp\; the fact that Joan is a bachelorette is the fact that Joan is an unmarried woman.&nbsp\; So a tension arises.&nbsp\; 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.&nbsp\; Then I will discuss one way of relieving the tension by appealing to essences.&nbsp\; 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.&nbsp\; I will argue that we can incorporate essences into a grounding framework by focusing on the nature of&nbsp\;questions&nbsp\;concerning essences.&nbsp\; 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.</p>
ORGANIZER;CN=Jon Erling Litland:
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