Ontological dependence in a spacetime-world

Abstract

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Presentism, persistence and trans-temporal dependence

“…, 2012 in different contexts and to different ends. I (Tallant 2015) explore the claim that one can recover the kind of grounding relation declared primitive and unanalysable by the likes of Schaffer (2009) via combining these relations. I won't discuss any of these claims here.…”

Truth and Dependence

“…indeed, the reason we think that positing only one kind of ontological dependence is wrong is that it fails to respect the different dependence relations in which objects stand to one another. See, e.g., Lowe (2012) and Tallant (2015) for discussion and defence of these conceptions of dependence.…”