A Defense on the Usefulness of ‘Big-G’ Grounding

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Markel Kortabarria
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Abstract Contemporary metaphysics has undergone a change of perspective due to the irruption of Grounding in discussions of metaphysical dependence. Proponents argue that Grounding is the primitive relationship of determination underlying many of the traditionally posited idioms of metaphysical dependence. In a recent line of scepticism Jessica Wilson has argued that the inability of the notion to be informatively effective regarding substantial matters of metaphysical determination renders it useless in the face of theoretical work. To supply this lack of informativeness proponents must resort to the already available set of specific ‘small-g’ relations, which renders the formulation of ‘big-G’ Grounding pre-theoretically unmotivated. In response two motivations are said to remain: The priority and unity arguments. Wilson insists that neither of these motivations succeeds in establishing ‘big-G’ Grounding as theoretically useful. I argue that none of Wilson’s critiques succeeds in establishing eliminative scepticism.
为“大g”接地的有用性辩护
摘要当代形而上学在讨论形而上学的依赖性时,由于“基础”的介入,经历了一场视角的转变。支持者认为,基础是决定的原始关系,是许多形而上学依赖的传统成语的基础。在最近的一系列怀疑主义中,杰西卡·威尔逊(Jessica Wilson)认为,概念在形而上学决定的实质性问题上无法提供有效的信息,这使得它在面对理论工作时毫无用处。为了弥补这种信息性的缺乏,支持者必须求助于已经可用的一组特定的“小g”关系,这使得“大g”基础的公式在理论之前没有动力。作为回应,据说仍然存在两个动机:优先和统一的论点。威尔逊坚持认为,这两种动机都不能证明“大g”基础理论在理论上是有用的。我认为威尔逊的批评没有一个成功地建立了排除怀疑主义。
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