id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt p2676t07f53 Alexander Jeffrey Skiles Getting Grounded: Essays in the Metaphysics of Fundamentality 2013 .txt text/plain 269 8 31 I then argue that even though grounding neither entails nor is entailed by reduction, facts about grounding can be understood wholly and without circularity in terms of facts about reductive analysis (Chapter 4, 'Getting Grounded'). I begin by arguing that concepts of grounding ought to serve as a foundation for understanding the metaphysics of fundamentality more generally (Chapter 2, 'Grounding the Metaphysics of Fundamentality'), and then propose an account of reductive analysis that retains the traditional insight that a reductive analysis purports to describe the constituents of a property or fact and depict how they are structured together (Chapter 3, 'On What Consists in What'). cache/p2676t07f53.txt txt/p2676t07f53.txt