On defining the notion of complete and immediate formal grounding

Synthese 193 (10) (2016)
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The aim of this paper is to provide a definition of the the notion of complete and immediate formal grounding through the concepts of derivability and complexity. It will be shown that this definition yields a subtle and precise analysis of the concept of grounding in several paradigmatic cases

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