The phrase 'be grounded on' is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to describe a foundation or basis for something. For example, "The company's policies are grounded on a strong foundation of ethical business practices."
Act-utilitarians, who believe that the right action is that which maximizes well-being overall, may attempt to use the intuitive plausibility of welfarism to support their position, arguing that any deviation from the maximization of well-being must be grounded on something distinct from well-being, such as equality or rights.
However, local assessments are validatable and can even be grounded on common sense: Given one shuts down a node X, the probability that it will be impacted, i.e., not work as intended, is 100%: p(+ x|+ shutdown x )=1.
The second is that if A and B are two different creatures (say a man and a donkey) that God is going to create, their mutual differences cannot be grounded on their own beings, since they are not yet existing things; therefore they have to be found in something pertaining to God's productive potency, which will act according to different principles present in it.
Utilitarianism takes persons' moral status to be grounded on their capacity for well-being and suffering, and takes well-being to be the sole moral value.
Measuring the potential development of one day surgery should be grounded on a comprehensive list of eligible procedures, based on a priori criteria, independent of local practices.
Like President Bush was able to order all planes to be grounded on September 11th, the bill would allow President Obama to ground parts of the Internet in similar circumstances.
All policy matters must be grounded on this premise.
