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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"ontological dependence"”.

  1. Essence, Explanation and Kind-membership

    Chi, ZeyuCornell University2019

    … a recent proposal which suggests that we define ontological dependence in terms of essence. Compared with the modal definition of ontological dependence, the essentialist definition promises to be sensitive to the direction in which specific dependence relation obtains. I argue that the promise …

    cornell Repository record

  2. Actualism, singular propositions, and possible worlds : essays in metaphysics of modality

    Hoffmann, Aviv, 1964-Massachusetts Institute of Technology2002

    … does not exist in those worlds. In "Actualism, Ontological Dependence, and Possible Worlds," I consider Actualism, the doctrine that every possible object is an actual object. Plantinga has argued that the actualist is committed to the existence of unexemplified essences if he analyzes …

    mit Repository record

  3. Grounding, Causation and the Unity of Ontological Structure

    Kivatinos, ThomasThe Graduate School and University Center of The City University of New York2017

    … grounding on which grounding is understood as a dependence relation. On this conception, if the <em>X</em>s <em>ground </em>the <em>Y</em>s,<em> </em>then the existence of the <em>Y</em>s<em> </em>depends upon the existence of the <em>X</em>s. Thus, grounded entities <em>ontologically depend</em> …

    cuny-grad Repository record

  4. Extended identities: The reducibility of non-categorical properties and their bearers

    Hubble, PaulThe University of Waikato2020

    When we take apart big or complicated things—whether events, processes, systems, objects or states—we find smaller or simpler things. Still, some who purport that everything is physical also want to deny that complicated things are sets of simpler things, their relations, and interactions. But that …

    waikato-masters Repository record

  5. Powers and the Metaphysics of Fundamentality

    Cook, Benjamin

    … entities e1...en and a further entity e when e ontologically depends on, and is metaphysically explained by, e1...en, should be understood causally and, if so, whether this has any substantive implications. I answer both in the affirmative. I argue that ground and causation are similar enough to …

    syracuse-diss Repository record