Methodological deflationism and metaphysical grounding: from because via truth to ground

Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy (forthcoming)
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The paper proposes a strategy for understanding metaphysical grounding in deflationary terms and, more generally, proposes a form of methodological deflationism with respect to the notions of ground. The idea is to define a deflationary is grounded in-predicate by appeal to the two-place non-causal connective ‘because’ and a deflationary truth predicate. To this end, we discuss the explanatory role of the truth-predicate in non-causal explanations and develop a theory of truth for the language of the ‘because’-connective. We argue that at least from a logical perspective our deflationary notion of ground is up to the task.

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Johannes Stern
University of Bristol

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