The notion of grounding is usually conceived as an objective and explanatory relation. It connects two relata if one-the ground-determines or explains the other-the consequence. In the contemporary literature on grounding, much effort has been devoted to logically characterize the formal aspects of grounding, but a major hard problem remains: defining suitable grounding principles for universal and existential formulae. Indeed, several grounding principles for quantified formulae have been proposed, but all of them are exposed to paradoxes in some very natural contexts of application. We introduce in this paper a first-order formal system that captures the notion of grounding and avoids the paradoxes in a novel and non-trivial way. The system we present formally develops Bolzano's ideas on grounding by employing Hilbert's epsilon-terms and an adapted version of Fine's theory of arbitrary objects.
Grounding, Quantifiers, and Paradoxes / F.A. Genco, F. Poggiolesi, L. Rossi. - In: JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHICAL LOGIC. - ISSN 0022-3611. - 50:6(2021), pp. 1417-1448. [10.1007/s10992-021-09604-w]
Grounding, Quantifiers, and Paradoxes
F.A. GencoPrimo
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2021
Abstract
The notion of grounding is usually conceived as an objective and explanatory relation. It connects two relata if one-the ground-determines or explains the other-the consequence. In the contemporary literature on grounding, much effort has been devoted to logically characterize the formal aspects of grounding, but a major hard problem remains: defining suitable grounding principles for universal and existential formulae. Indeed, several grounding principles for quantified formulae have been proposed, but all of them are exposed to paradoxes in some very natural contexts of application. We introduce in this paper a first-order formal system that captures the notion of grounding and avoids the paradoxes in a novel and non-trivial way. The system we present formally develops Bolzano's ideas on grounding by employing Hilbert's epsilon-terms and an adapted version of Fine's theory of arbitrary objects.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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