With such a view, one can speak of facts grounding other facts, while ultimately staying neutral on whether there really are any facts to begin with.
Hence, while the fact that R exists is a member of a grounding chain that doesn't terminate in facts that lack grounds, this fact nonetheless is grounded in facts that themselves lack grounds.
On one construal of Forbes' argument, haecceitistic differences are unintelligible and therefore objectionable because all identity facts must be grounded in facts about the qualitative character of the world.
Here is a simple grounding-theoretic proposal: all the facts concerning strikes are grounded in facts that don't concern strikes.
Hence, while picket and strike may be grounded in facts that don't concern strikes, there is a fact concerning strikes ground that isn't grounded in facts that don't concern strikes, because it's not grounded in any facts at all.
Rather, her responses to economic problems have invariably been data driven, grounded in facts and analysis and subject to change as the facts change.
Supposing that there are some grounding chains that fail to terminate in ungrounded facts, we can still maintain that every member of such a chain is grounded in facts that themselves lack grounds.
The Economist is very much a fiction, but one grounded in facts.
The State Department noted earlier this year that the investigation of Mr. Kazhegeldin, "while possibly grounded in facts, appeared motivated politically".
