Incompletable grounding and ontological economy.

I argue that there is incompletable grounding —partial grounds that do not, together with other partial grounds, fully ground. And I show how this complicates the fundamentality approach to the ontological economy of theories.

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Published in:Analysis Vol. 85; no. 3; pp. 679 - 690
Main Author: Trogdon, Kelly
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Published: Oxford University Press / USA Jul2025
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