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A certain kind of talk is ubiquitous among both philosophers and so-called "ordinary people": talk of one phenomenon generating or giving rise to another, or talk of one phenomenon being based in or constructed from another. For example, your computer screen is built of atoms in a complex configuration, and the picture on the screen is based in the local illumination of various individual pixels. Karen Bennett calls the family of relations invoked by such talk 'building relations'. Grounding is one currently popular such ...

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Making Things Up 2019, Oxford University Press, Oxford

ISBN-13: 9780198844662

Paperback

Making Things Up 2017, Oxford University Press, Oxford

ISBN-13: 9780199682683

Hardcover