Indefinitely Descending Ground

In Ricki Bliss & Graham Priest (eds.), Reality and its Structure: Essays in Fundamentality. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. pp. 167-181 (2018)
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In this paper I argue against grounding being necessarily well-founded, and provide some reasons to think it's actually not well-founded.

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