Grounding, Well-Foundedness, and Terminating Chains.
It has recently been argued that foundationalists, those who take grounding to be well-founded, should not understand the well-foundedness of grounding as the condition that every grounding chain terminates in the downward direction, because this interpretation of well-foundedness fails to correctly...
| Publicado en: | Philosophia Vol. 51; no. 3; pp. 1539 - 1555 |
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Jul2023
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