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Full and Partial Grounding
KELLY TROGDON, D. GENE WITMER
Journal: Journal of the American Philosophical Association / Volume 7 / Issue 2 / Summer 2021
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 April 2021, pp. 252-271
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While controversy about the nature of grounding abounds, our focus is on a question for which a particular answer has attracted something like a consensus. The question concerns the relation between partial grounding and full grounding. The apparent consensus is that the former is to be defined in terms of the latter. In this article, we argue that the standard way of doing this faces a significant problem and that we ought to pursue the reverse project of defining full grounding in terms of partial grounding. The guiding idea behind the definition we propose is that full grounding is what happens when partial grounding works in a way that ensures that the grounded is nothing over and above the grounds. We ultimately understand this idea in terms of iterated ‘nothing over and above’ claims.