The Modalities of Essence and Ground

The Modalities of Essence and Ground

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Werner, Jonas
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Frankfurt am Main : Vittorio Klostermann, 2022.
Series:Studies in theoretical philosophy.
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover
  • Impressum
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1 Introduction
  • 1.1 The Basic Idea
  • 1.2 Metaphysical Modality
  • 1.3 Essence
  • 1.4 Grounding
  • 1.5 The Structure of this Work
  • 2 Immediate Minimal Grounds
  • 2.1 Mediate Grounding and Immediate Grounding
  • 2.2 Minimality and Ground-Theoretic Relevance
  • 2.3 Problems for Minimality
  • 2.4 Rescuing Minimality
  • 2.5 Why Immediate Minimality?
  • 2.6 Conclusion
  • 3 Constructing the Semantics
  • 3.1 The Basic Idea
  • 3.2 The Semantic Apparatus for a First-Order Language
  • 3.3 Sameness of Meaning
  • 3.3.1 Sameness of Meaning for Objectual Constants
  • 3.3.2 Sameness of Meaning for Predicates
  • 3.3.3 Sameness of Meaning for Sentences
  • 3.3.4 Sameness of Meaning for Complex Sentences
  • 3.3.5 An Account of Metaphysically Distinct Worlds
  • 3.4 Worlds as Non-Linguistic Entities
  • 3.4.1 Reasons to Not Be a Linguistic Ersatzer
  • 3.4.2 Worlds as Sets of Facts
  • 3.5 Conclusion
  • 4 Essence
  • 4.1 Introducing the Essence-Operator
  • 4.1.1 How the Essence-Operator Works
  • 4.1.2 Adding a Second Layer
  • 4.2 Essence and logical consequence
  • 4.2.1 Constitutive and Loose Consequential Essence
  • 4.2.2 Variations on Consequential and Constitutive Essence
  • 4.3 Logical Principles of Essence
  • 4.4 The Logical Principles of Essence from a Philosophical Perspective
  • 4.5 Essential Dependence
  • 4.6 Conclusion
  • 5 Necessity and Possibility
  • 5.1 Essence and Metaphysical Modality
  • 5.2 Implementing the Essence-Modality-View
  • 5.3 Implementing Contingent Essence
  • 5.4 Necessities of Different Sorts
  • 5.4.1 Essence and Logical Necessity
  • 5.4.2 Necessities Narrower than Metaphysical Necessity
  • 5.5 Conclusion
  • 6 Grounding
  • 6.1 The Basic Idea
  • 6.2 Implementing Grounding into the Semantics
  • 6.3 The Structural Features of Grounding
  • 6.4 The Varieties of Grounding
  • 6.4.1 Zero-Grounding
  • 6.4.2 Many-Many-Grounding
  • 6.5 The Impure Logic of Ground
  • 6.5.1 Negation and Negative Grounding
  • 6.5.2 Grounding and Quantification
  • 6.6 Contingent Grounding
  • 6.7 Fundamentality
  • 6.8 Priority Beyond Grounding
  • 6.9 Conclusion
  • 7 Comparison and Conclusion
  • 7.1 What Happened So Far
  • 7.2 Comparison to the Theory of Generalized Identities
  • 7.3 Comparison to Truthmaker-Semantics
  • 7.4 Final Remarks
  • Bibliography

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