Can grounding characterize fundamentality?

Analysis 77 (1):74-79 (2017)
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Abstract

It can seem incoherent to fully characterize fundamentality in terms of grounding, given that the fundamental is precisely that which cannot be fully characterized independently. I argue that there is no such incoherence.

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Neil Mehta
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