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Grounding, Contingency and Transitivity
Author(s) -
Loss Roberto
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
ratio
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.475
H-Index - 29
eISSN - 1467-9329
pISSN - 0034-0006
DOI - 10.1111/rati.12109
Subject(s) - transitive relation , contingency , monism , doctrine , ground , epistemology , relation (database) , philosophy , law and economics , mathematical economics , computer science , sociology , mathematics , physics , theology , combinatorics , quantum mechanics , database
Grounding contingentism is the doctrine according to which grounds are not guaranteed to necessitate what they ground. In this paper I will argue that the most plausible version of contingentism (which I will label ‘serious contingentism’) is incompatible with the idea that the grounding relation is transitive, unless either ‘priority monism’ or ‘contrastivism’ are assumed.