Fundamentality from grounding trees

Synthese 199 (3-4):5965-5994 (2021)
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I provide and defend two natural accounts of fundamentality for facts that do justice to the idea that the “degree of fundamentality” enjoyed by a fact is a matter of how far, from a ground-theoretic perspective, the fact is from the ungrounded facts.

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10.1007/s11229-021-03054-2

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Fabrice Correia
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