Bolzano´s Conception of Grounding:

Stefan Roski

doi:10.5771/9783465139713

Summary

Not all truths are on a par. The realm of truths is structured: some propositions are only true because others are. The relation that endows the realm of truths with this structure is often called grounding. Grounding has achieved much attention in 21st century metaphysics, but the topic is arguably as old as philosophy itself. This becomes apparent when investigating the works of the 19th-century philosopher Bernard Bolzano, who developed what is perhaps the first comprehensive theory of grounding, drawing on a rich tradition that goes back to Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics. Roski’s book provides, for the first time, a comprehensive study of Bolzano’s theory of grounding in its entirety, paying more attention than previous studies to the interaction between grounding and the consequence-relation of deducibility.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2017
ISBN-Print: 978-3-465-03971-6
ISBN-Online: 978-3-465-13971-3
Publisher: Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main
Series: Studies in Theoretical Philosophy
Language: English
Pages: 270
Product type: Book Titles

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis No access
Preface No access
1. 1.1 Priority among truths No access
2. 1.2 Grounding, following from, and axiomatic science No access
3. 1.3 Grounding - the general idea No access
4. 1.4 Principles of interpretation No access
5. 1.5 What I will not do in this book No access
6. 1.6 Overview of the book No access
1. 2.1 Introduction No access
2. 2.2 The basic framework of the WL No access
3. 2.3 The logic of variation No access
4. 2.4 Conclusion No access
1. 3.1 Introduction No access
2. 3.2 Preliminaries No access
3. 3.3 Some basic distinctions No access
4. 3.4 Immediate grounding No access
5. 3.5 A more concise reconstruction No access
6. 3.6 Mediate grounding No access
1. 4.1 Introduction No access
2. 4.2 Conceptuality, complexity and the existence of fundamental truths No access
3. 4.3 Economy Principles No access
4. 4.4 The Generality Constraint: WL, § 221.6 No access
5. 4.5 Jointly sufficient conditions for grounding: WL, § 221.7 No access
6. 4.6 Bolzano´s tentative definition of grounding: WL, § 221.note No access
7. 4.7 Fundamental truths revisited No access
8. 4.8 Conclusion No access
1. 5.1 General ideas and a crucial difference No access
2. 5.2 The pure logic of metaphysical grounding No access
3. 5.3 The impure logic No access
4. 5.4 Conclusion No access
6. Conclusion No access
A. Immediate predecessor No access
B. Bolzano´s impure logic of grounding and Fine´s truth-maker semantics No access
List of abbreviations No access
List of symbols, definitions, and principles No access
Bibliography No access
Index No access