Individual objects have potentials: paper has the potential to burn, an acorn has the potential
to turn into a tree, some people have the potential to run a mile in less than four minutes …

Consider the following claim: the truck drivers are engaged in a labor strike in virtue of
picketing. What sort of claim is this? Well, it seems clear what sort of claim it isn't. It isn't an …

This chapter explains the basic framework of truthmaker or'exact'semantics, an approach to
semantics that has recently received a growing amount of interest, and discusses a number …

Perception is our key to the world. It plays at least three different roles in our lives. It justifies
beliefs and provides us with knowledge of our environment. It brings about conscious mental …

Since the ground-breaking work of Saul Kripke, David Lewis, and others in the 1960s and
70s, one dominant interest of analytic philosophers has been in modal truths, which …

This essay focuses on a recently prominent notion of (metaphysical) ground which is
distinctive for how it links metaphysics to explanation. Ground is supposed to serve both as …

Can there be grounding without necessitation? Can a fact obtain wholly in virtue of
metaphysically more fundamental facts, even though there are possible worlds at which the …

THE PURE LOGIC OF GROUND Page 1 THE REVIEW OF SYMBOLIC LOGIC Volume 5,
Number 1, March 2012 THE PURE LOGIC OF GROUND KIT FINE Department of Philosophy …

We continue with the development of the theory of truthmaker content begun in part I,
dealing with such 'non-standard'topics as subject matter, common content, logical remainder …

A compelling idea holds that reality has a layered structure. We often disagree about what
inhabits the bottom layer, but we agree that higher up we find chemical, biological …