Ontological Dependence

  • Correia F
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Abstract

‘Ontological dependence’ is a term of philosophical jargon which stands for a rich family of properties and relations, often taken to be among the most fundamental ontological properties and relations. Notions of ontological dependence are usually thought of as ‘carving reality at its ontological joints’, and as marking certain forms of ontological ‘non‐self‐sufficiency’. The use of notions of dependence goes back as far as Aristotle's characterization of substances, and these notions are still widely used to characterize other concepts and to formulate metaphysical claims. This paper first gives an overview of the varieties of these notions, and then discusses some of their main applications.

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Correia, F. (2008). Ontological Dependence. Philosophy Compass, 3(5), 1013–1032. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1747-9991.2008.00170.x

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