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Some proponents of grounding offer analyses of the notion.
But some proponents of grounding also claim that grounding is variegated.
We take it that the default view among proponents of grounding is that full grounding carries metaphysical necessity (Audi 2012; Dasgupta 2014; deRosset 2010; Rosen 2010; Trogdon 2013).
The more or less received view among proponents of grounding, however, is that the concept isn't analyzable the concept of grounding is ultimately primitive in nature (Fine 2012; Rodriguez-Pereyra 2005; Rosen 2010; Schaffer 2009; Witmer et al. 2005).
While we've been speaking of the grounding relation, some proponents of grounding wish to stay neutral on whether there are any properties or relations, so they, likewise, wish to stay neutral on whether there is a grounding relation.
Some proponents of grounding claim that we can understand truthmaking in terms of grounding, and doing so helps us resolve longstanding problems regarding truthmaking, such as the problem of negative existentials (Cameron forthcoming; Liggins 2012; Schaffer 2010b).
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It's unclear, however, why we should think that the proponent of grounding is committed to (iii).
Daly claims that, in endorsing (i), the proponent of grounding is claiming that (iii) we have no understanding of these quasi-technical notions independent of our understanding of grounding.
Suppose the proponent of grounding claims that (i) we can analyze various quasi-technical notions (say, the notion of fundamentality) in terms of the concept of grounding, so (ii) pointing to how grounding is related to such notions helps us understand what talk of grounding comes to (§6.3).
Notice, however, that the proponent of grounding, while accepting much of what Fine says about grounding, is free to simply deny Fine's thesis about grounding claims lacking realist import intuitively the relata of the grounding relation (and any relation, for that matter) are real.
Hofweber (2009), while not suspicious of metaphysics per se, is suspicious of what he calls 'esoteric' metaphysics—roughly, metaphysical inquiry that appeals to non-quotidian notions that aren't analyzable in terms of quotidian notions and he sees the proponent of grounding as engaging in esoteric metaphysics.
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