If the regress of 'what grounds the grounding relation' cannot be stopped without brute posit, then hyperintensional explanatory structure earns no ontological advantage over deflationary alternatives.
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An infinite chain of reasoning where each explanation requires another explanation, like asking 'why?' infinitely and never reaching a final answer.
grounding(Drawn from contemporary metaphysics; proposed as potentially applicable to understanding the foundations of legality.)
A metaphysical relation in which some entities or facts are more foundational than others, providing a hierarchical structure of the world.
grounding relation(the type of connection between bodies and their grounds)
The way that one thing serves as the explanation or foundation for another thing's existence.
hyperintensional(Applied to explanation and the connective 'because')
A context is hyperintensional when expressions within it cannot be substituted with necessary equivalents salva veritate — i.e., substituting one necessarily equivalent expression for another can change the truth value of the containing sentence.