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    It is not the case that Fine's (2012) operator-based approach treats grounding as a primitive sentential connective, not a relation, making the explanatory dimension internal to its logical form.

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    • 1.Treating grounding as primitive merely postpones explanation rather than solving it; primitives still require philosophical justification.
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    • 2.Making explanation internal to logical form risks conflating metaphysical grounding with linguistic or logical structure, obscuring real distinctions.
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    • 3.Operator-based approaches struggle to capture grounding's relational structure—that some facts ground others across distinct domains or levels.
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    • 1.Treating grounding as primitive avoids infinite regress by not requiring prior explanation of the grounding relation itself.
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    • 2.Encoding explanation within logical form captures how grounding statements have distinctive logical properties distinct from entailment.
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    • 3.Operator-based approaches preserve grounding's non-monotonicity and sensitivity to fine-grained conceptual content better than relational approaches.
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