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This is a transitional chapter including both substantial further development of the theory of grounding and an application to a problem of wider significance. The question addressed in this chapter concerns how the connections of ground themselves may be dependent on and determined by more fundamental facts. In the absence of an answer, we seem to have good reason to believe that we have not captured the idea that nature is structured into layers. The chapter argues (following Ted Sider) that a similar question arises more generally for any view which accommodates the idea that some facts are more fundamental than others, and so a solution serves any attempt, ground-theoretic or not, to articulate the idea that nature is structured into layers. A ground-theoretic solution to this problem is proposed. The chapter offers reasons for thinking that this ground-theoretic solution is completely satisfactory. |
