A Note on Fine’s Logic of Ground

Document Type : Note

Author
Department of Philosophy and Logic, Faculty of Humanities, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
Abstract
In this note, I argue that Fine's pure logic of ground is nothing but the structural fragment of RM. This result raises a problem for discriminating between ground and relevantistic deduction in Fine's theory of ground.

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