Schaffer's theses concern grounding relations between concrete objects, while ours concern grounding relations between concrete facts.
It may be that there is an important coarse-grained relation the relation of grounding tout court along with various fine-grained grounding relations.
Schaffer 2010 proposes a similar view, but holds that metaphysical grounding relations hold not between facts but between entities.
Relations akin to (some of) what Bennett (2011a) calls 'building' relations and (some of) what Wilson calls (2014) 'small-g' grounding relations are natural candidates for being the relevant metaphysical relations.
If it turns out that we can't specify the right sort of differentia for these relations, another proposal according to which grounding is both unitary and variegated worth considering is this: grounding tout court is a determinable, and the various fine-grained grounding relations are determinates of this determinable.
It has generally been assumed that if there is a relation between identity and our practical concerns, it is some sort of univocal relation, running from a single (correct) theory of personal identity to all of our person-related practical concerns (whether it's a grounding relation, an explanatory relation, a revealed relation, or something else).
Von Larisch developed modern alphabets that emphasized the figure-ground relation between the letter and the writing surface.
Borrowings — or, rather, clean thefts — of form from Picasso, Matisse, and Miró infuse welters of charcoal line that set off pink body fragments, in reversible figure-ground relation with passages of golden browns.
A salient place to begin is with the grounding relation.
Is not one of these partitions privileged by the grounding relation?
The grounding relation holds between a set of truths and their immediate consequences.
