Structured propositions and a semantics for unrestricted impure logics of ground

Synthese 201 (4):1-29 (2023)
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I show that the assumption of highly structured propositions can be leveraged to provide a unified semantics for various propositional logics of impure ground in a very expressive and flexible way. It is shown, in particular, that the induced models are capable of capturing an infinitude of grounding facts that follow from unrestricted logics of ground, but, due to certain artificial restrictions, are left unaccounted for by the existing semantics in the literature. It is also shown that our models, unlike the ones in the literature, are easily extendable to capture certain distinct views about iterated as well as identity grounding.

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Amirhossein Kiani
University of Calgary

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