Explanation by status as empty-base explanation

DOI10.1007/S11229-020-02901-YMaRDI QIDQ6142461zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yannic Kappes

Publication date 26 January 2024

Published in Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-020-02901-y

zbMATH Keywords

empty-base explanationessentialist explanationexplanation by lawexplanation by necessityexplanation by statuszero-grounding

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05)

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• A logic for `because'
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• Grounding grounds necessity
• Some puzzles of ground
• The logic of essence
• Well founding grounding grounding

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• Possibilist explanation: explaining how-possibly through laws

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