This paper motivates and defends a principle which captures a systematic connection between essence, truth, and grounding. It says that if a proposition expresses an essential truth, i.e., if it is true in virtue of the nature of some objects, then there are grounds for its truth which involve these objects. Together with the assumption that a fact can only be grounded in facts which are relevant to it, this principle is then applied in an argument against the monotonicity of the Essentialist notion ‘true in virtue of the nature of’.

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基本真理及其真理基础

本文提出并捍卫了一个原则，该原则捕捉了本质，真理和基础之间的系统联系。它说，如果一个命题表达了一个基本的真理，即，凭借某些客体的本质，它是真实的，那么它的真理就有理由涉及这些客体。再加上一个事实只能基于与事实相关的事实的假设，然后在反对本质主义概念“由于……的本质而真实”的单调性的论点中应用该原理。