Each of these views is a type of metaphysical foundationalism, which suggests that chains of ontological dependence must come to an end, at least at the dependent end.
The second camp focuses, as noted above, on the notion of ontological dependence itself, attempting to clarify a way in which everything depends on God.
Hence, there are two senses in which a clearer understanding of ontological dependence may help: we can specify in what sense fundamental entities are ontologically independent as well as how other entities may be ontologically dependent on the fundamental entities, thus gaining further understanding of the supposed "hierarchy" that terminates in the bottom level.
Ontological dependence on rye.
"Ontological dependence" sounds forbidding, but Mr. Conee, in his chapter on God, comes to the rescue with an irresistible invitation: "Consider a tuna salad sandwich". Two slices of bread do not make a tuna salad sandwich, and neither does a heap of tuna salad, but together they do.
Supervenience, In philosophy, the asymmetrical relation of ontological dependence that holds between two generically different sets of properties (e.g., mental and physical properties) if and only if every change in an object's properties belonging to the first set the supervening properties entails and is due to a change in properties belonging to the second set (the base properties).
It introduces the ontological dependence on the measuring arrangement.
The latter varieties of ontological dependence may accordingly be called species of essential dependence.
What is called for here is, pretty obviously, just some particular relationship of ontological dependence.
More generally, we should distinguish issues of epistemic and ontological dependence.
The connection between ontological dependence and truthmaking is of a more general type.
