Grounding identity in existence facts: A reply to Wilhelm

Analysis 83 (3):500-506 (2023)
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What grounds facts of the form? One promising answer is: facts of the form. A different promising answer is: x itself. Isaac Wilhelm has recently argued that the second answer is superior to the first. In this paper, I rebut his argument.

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Indiscernibility and the Grounds of Identity.Samuel Z. Elgin - forthcoming - Philosophical Studies:1-23.

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Grounding Explanations.Louis deRosset - 2013 - Philosophers' Imprint 13.
An argument for entity grounding.Isaac Wilhelm - 2020 - Analysis 80 (3):500-507.
A Puzzle about Identity.Alexis Burgess - 2012 - Thought: A Journal of Philosophy 1 (2):90-99.

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