Emergence and Fundamentality
Emergence and Fundamentality
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出现与基础
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2012
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Elizabeth Barnes
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Elizabeth Barnes
Elizabeth Barnes Draft, April 2010 Abstract: In this paper, I argue for a new way of characterizing ontological emergence. I appeal to recent discussions in metaontology of fundamentality and dependence, and show how emergence can be simply and straightforwardly characterized using these notions. I then argue that many of the standard problems for emergence don’t apply to this account: given a clearly specified metaontological background, emergence becomes much easier to explicate. If my arguments are successful, they show both a helpful way of thinking emergence and the potential utility of discussions in metaontology when applied to first-order metaphysics..