Grounding: necessary or contingent?

Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 94 (4):465-485 (2013)
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Abstract

Argument that full grounds modally entail what they ground.

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Guide to Ground.Kit Fine - 2012 - In Fabrice Correia & Benjamin Schnieder (eds.), Metaphysical Grounding. Cambridge University Press. pp. 37--80.

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