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On What (In General) Grounds What

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(1)An act is right in virtue of maximizing happiness.
(2)Gwen’s act of charity is right because it maximizes happiness.
(3)An act is right because it maximizes happiness.
(4)An agent knows a proposition is true, in part, because they believe the proposition is true.
(5)An object is a table because it is composed of atoms arranged table-wise.
(6)Gwen’s act of charity is right because it maximizes happiness.
(7)Luke knows that Gwen is philanthropic, in part, because he believes that Gwen is philanthropic.
(8)The fact that Jack’s table is a table is grounded in the fact that Jack’s table is composed of atoms arranged table-wise.
(10)Acts are right because they promote happiness.
(11)Knowledge is grounded in true belief.
(12)Gen x.(x is a bird)(x flies)
(13)Gen x.(x is a right act)(x is a right act because it maximizes happiness)
(14)Numbers are grounded in mathematical structures.
(15)An object is colored in virtue of possessing some specific color.
(16)An object is colored in virtue of being red.
(17)Pains are grounded in physical states.
(18)Non-fundamental pains are grounded in physical states.
(19)Necessarily, for every x, if x is a right act, then the fact that x is right is fully grounded by the fact that x maximizes happiness.
(20)Necessarily, for every x, if x is a right act, then the fact that x is right is fully grounded by the fact that x maximizes happiness.
(21)For every x in world w 1, if x is a right act, then x is right in virtue of maximizing happiness.
(22)[Gwen’s act maximizes happiness (in w 1)] ≺ [Gwen’s act is right (in w 1)]
(23)Acts are right in virtue of maximizing happiness, and I take this to be a primitive moral law.
(24)Every bottle is empty.
(25)Every bottle in the universe is empty.
(26)Every bottle in Tasha’s house is empty.
(27)An agent knows a proposition is true, in part, because he or she believes the proposition is true.
(28)An object is a table because it is composed of atoms arranged table-wise.
(29)For any possible sets x and y, the fact that x and y have the same members grounds the fact that they are identical.
(30)It lies in the nature of what it is for an act to be right that: for every x, if x is a right act or x maximizes happiness, then the fact that x is right is fully grounded by the fact that x maximizes happiness.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/met.18 | Journal eISSN: 2515-8279
Language: English
Submitted on: Jan 30, 2019
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Accepted on: Oct 15, 2019
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Published on: Jan 9, 2020
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

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