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    An entity can ground substancehood in others without itse... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Substratum's claim to substancehood rests not on meeting the tests of substancehood itself, but on being what enables particular kinds of substances to be substances.

    An entity can ground substancehood in others without itself requiring the same grounding criteria, just as a foundation need not itself be founded.

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    • 1.Grounding relations can be asymmetrical: a base need not satisfy conditions it imposes on what it grounds, like axioms in mathematics.
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    • 2.Self-grounding leads to infinite regress or circularity; some entities must be foundational to avoid explanatory collapse.
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    • 3.Functional roles differ: a foundation's role is to support others, not to be supported, so grounding criteria need not apply equally.
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    • 1.If grounding is a real metaphysical relation, exempting foundations from its criteria seems arbitrary and undermines principled explanation.
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    • 2.The claim conflates logical priority with metaphysical privilege; explanatory asymmetry doesn't justify different grounding standards.
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    • 3.Brute facts admitted here are indistinguishable from denying the principle itself, making the special exemption philosophically hollow.
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