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Grounding or grounded may refer to: Science and philosophy * Grounding (metaphysics), a topic of wide philosophical interest * Grounding (psychology), a strategy for coping with stress or other negative emotions * Grounding in communication, the collection of mutual knowledge, beliefs, and assumptions; "common ground" * Ground (electricity), a common return path for electric current * Symbol grounding, a problem in cognition and artificial intelligence Arts and media * ''Grounded'' (comics), a comic book by Mark Sable for Image Comics * ''Grounded'' (video game), a multiplayer survival game by Obsidian Entertainment * " Superman: Grounded" a storyline in the ''Superman'' comic book, written by J. Michael Straczynski * ''Grounding'' (film), 2006 film about the collapse of the airline Swissair * ''Unaccompanied Minors'', a 2006 Christmas film that was titled ''Grounded'' in the UK and Ireland * "Grounded", a song by Lower Than Atlantis from ''World Record'' * "Grounded", a song ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grounding (metaphysics)
Grounding is a topic in metaphysics. Consider an ordinary physical object, such as a table, and the atoms it is made of. Without the atoms, the table would not exist. The table's existence ''depends'' on the existence of the atoms. This kind of dependence is called "grounding" to distinguish it from other kinds of dependence, such as the dependence of an effect on its cause. It is sometimes called ''metaphysical'' or ''ontological dependence''. Grounding can be characterized as a relation between a ''ground'' and a ''grounded entity''. The ground exists on a more fundamental level than the grounded entity, in the sense that the grounded entity depends for its existence or its properties on its ground. According to the neo-Aristotelian approach to ontology, the goal of ontology is to determine which entities are fundamental and how the non-fundamental entities depend on them. Overview A distinction is typically made between grounding relations and other dependence relations, such as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |