The Modalities of Essence and Ground

Jonas Werner

doi:10.5771/9783465145813

Summary

It is not a coincidence that every red rose is coloured. No rose can be red without being coloured. A red rose is coloured in virtue of its being red, its being coloured is metaphysically explained by its being red. This is, at least in part, underwritten by what it is for the rose to be coloured, by the nature – or essence – of its being coloured. If this is right, then questions concerning possibility and necessity, questions concerning metaphysical explanation, and questions concerning essence are systematically connected. This book proposes a unified account of metaphysical modality, grounding, and essence. It develops a semantic way to model essences as localised necessities that rule out worlds as impossible and uses it to account for grounding and metaphysical modality.

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Publication year: 2022
Publication date: 01.03.2022
ISBN-Print: 978-3-465-04581-6
ISBN-Online: 978-3-465-14581-3
Publisher: Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main
Series: Studies in Theoretical Philosophy
Volume: 11
Language: English
Pages: 184
Product type: Book Titles

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis No access Pages I - VIII
Acknowledgements No access Pages IX - X
1. 1.1 The Basic Idea No access
2. 1.2 Metaphysical Modality No access
3. 1.3 Essence No access
4. 1.4 Grounding No access
5. 1.5 The Structure of this Work No access
1. 2.1 Mediate Grounding and Immediate Grounding No access
2. 2.2 Minimality and Ground-Theoretic Relevance No access
3. 2.3 Problems for Minimality No access
4. 2.4 Rescuing Minimality No access
5. 2.5 Why Immediate Minimality? No access
6. 2.6 Conclusion No access
1. 3.1 The Basic Idea No access
2. 3.2 The Semantic Apparatus for a First-Order Language No access
3. 1. 3.3.1 Sameness of Meaning for Objectual Constants No access
  2. 3.3.2 Sameness of Meaning for Predicates No access
  3. 3.3.3 Sameness of Meaning for Sentences No access
  4. 3.3.4 Sameness of Meaning for Complex Sentences No access
  5. 3.3.5 An Account of Metaphysically Distinct Worlds No access
4. 1. 3.4.1 Reasons to Not Be a Linguistic Ersatzer No access
  2. 3.4.2 Worlds as Sets of Facts No access
5. 3.5 Conclusion No access
1. 1. 4.1.1 How the Essence-Operator Works No access
  2. 4.1.2 Adding a Second Layer No access
2. 1. 4.2.1 Constitutive and Loose Consequential Essence No access
  2. 4.2.2 Variations on Consequential and Constitutive Essence No access
3. 4.3 Logical Principles of Essence No access
4. 4.4 The Logical Principles of Essence from a Philosophical Perspective No access
5. 4.5 Essential Dependence No access
6. 4.6 Conclusion No access
1. 5.1 Essence and Metaphysical Modality No access
2. 5.2 Implementing the Essence-Modality-View No access
3. 5.3 Implementing Contingent Essence No access
4. 1. 5.4.1 Essence and Logical Necessity No access
  2. 5.4.2 Necessities Narrower than Metaphysical Necessity No access
5. 5.5 Conclusion No access
1. 6.1 The Basic Idea No access
2. 6.2 Implementing Grounding into the Semantics No access
3. 6.3 The Structural Features of Grounding No access
4. 1. 6.4.1 Zero-Grounding No access
  2. 6.4.2 Many-Many-Grounding No access
5. 1. 6.5.1 Negation and Negative Grounding No access
  2. 6.5.2 Grounding and Quantification No access
6. 6.6 Contingent Grounding No access
7. 6.7 Fundamentality No access
8. 6.8 Priority Beyond Grounding No access
9. 6.9 Conclusion No access
1. 7.1 What Happened So Far No access
2. 7.2 Comparison to the Theory of Generalized Identities No access
3. 7.3 Comparison to Truthmaker-Semantics No access
4. 7.4 Final Remarks No access
Bibliography No access Pages 177 - 184