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SUMMARY:Fundamentality and Ontological Well-foundedness
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LOCATION:London\, United Kingdom
DESCRIPTION:<p>Tuesday 2 December 2014\, 12:30-14:00<br>IP Lunchtime Seminar: Room 246\, Senate House\, London\, WC1<br><br>Fundamentality and Ontological Well-foundedness<br>Tuomas Tahko (Helsinki)<br><br>Fundamentality is often characterized in terms of well-foundedness\, a&nbsp\;set-theoretical notion associated with the axiom of foundation.&nbsp\;Well-foundedness can be defined for parthood or some other order. It states&nbsp\;that every nonempty subset of a given domain has a minimal element.&nbsp\;Well-foundedness rules out infinite descent and the minimal element may be&nbsp\;considered fundamental. This paper expands the applicability of the notion&nbsp\;of well-foundedness by introducing an ontological version of it: an order is&nbsp\;said to be ontologically well-founded if there is an analogous\,&nbsp\;&lsquo\;ontologically minimal&rsquo\; element. The idea of ontological well-foundedness&nbsp\;will be examined and it emerges that it may be compatible with some versions&nbsp\;of metaphysical infinitism\, such as so called 'boring infinite descent'\,&nbsp\;whereby the same structure repeats infinitely.<br><br>Admission Free. All welcome.</p>
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