Symmetries and ground.
If the tiles of a mosaic are arranged symmetrically, then the image those tiles constitute must be symmetric as well. This paper formulates and defends the general principle at work in this case: roughly, that a symmetry cannot ground an asymmetry. It is argued that the principle supports strong obj...
| Publicado en: | Philosophical Studies Vol. 181; no. 5; pp. 1087 - 1114 |
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Springer Nature
May2024
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