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The theory of structure is a theory of fundamentality, and includes several distinctive theses. Completeness: everything holds in virtue of the fundamental facts. (Many would understand “in virtue of” here in terms of a metaphysical notion of ground; but it is better to understand it linguistically; thus, completeness is the claim that every language has a “metaphysical semantics”.) Purity: no fundamental fact involves any nonfundamental notions. Subpropositional: the core sort of fundamentality applies to proposition‐parts rather than entire propositions. Absoluteness: the core sort of fundamentality is all‐or‐nothing. Determinacy: the core sort of fundamentality is determinate. Fundamental: the core sort of fundamentality is itself perfectly fundamental.
Keywords: purity, completeness, ground, metaphysical semantics, subpropositional, absolute, comparative, determinate
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