On defining the notion of complete and immediate formal grounding

Francesca Poggiolesi (1)

1 IHPST - Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques

The aim of this paper is to contribute to the recent debate on the notion of grounding. More precisely, we will focus on the notion of complete and immediate formal grounding and we will provide a definition of it through the concepts of derivability and complexity. We will show that this definition allows us a subtle and precise analysis of the concept of grounding in several paradigmatic cases.

Mots clés: derivability; complexity; Grounding

Domaines: Philosophie

Francesca Poggiolesi. On defining the notion of complete and immediate formal grounding. Synthese, 2016, 193, pp.3147-3167. ⟨10.1007/s11229-015-0923-x⟩. ⟨hal-01102067⟩