Grounding grounds necessity

Analysis 80 (4):639-647 (2020)
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Abstract

Drawing from extensions of existing ideas in the logic of ground, a novel account of the grounds of necessity is presented, the core of which states that necessary truths are necessary because they stand in specific grounding connections.

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