Abstract Grounding necessitarianism (GN) is the view that full grounds necessitate what they ground. Although GN has been rather popular among philosophers, it faces important counterexamples: For instance, A = [Socrates died] fully C [Xanthippe became a widow]. However, fails to C: could have obtained together with B and Xanthippe were never married], without obtaining. In many cases, debate e...

Zusammenfassung Vor dem Hintergrund einer breiten Diskussion über das Verhältnis zwischen literarhistorischer Erforschung und ästhetischer Würdigung historisch ferner Literatur im ersten Jahrzehnt der DVjs legt Erich Auerbach eine Lektüre von Dantes Commedia vor, die beides verbindet. In seinem Artikel »Entdeckung in Romantik« 1929 zeigt er, dass er diesen (im gleichen Jahr Buch Dante als Dicht...

Formal symptoms of relevance usually concern the propositional variables shared between antecedent and consequent provable conditionals. Among most famous results about such are Belnap’s early showing that for sublogics strong relevant logic R, conditionals share a signed variable consequent. For logics weaker than R stronger sharing available. In 1984, Ross Brady gave one well-known example re...

Abstract Accounts of scientific explanation disagree about what’s required for a cause, law, or other fact to be reason why an event occurs. In short, they the conditions explanatory relevance. Nonetheless, most accounts presuppose that claims relevance play descriptive role in tracking reality. By rejecting need this descriptivist assumption, I develop expressivist account and explanation: jud...