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• @article{Schnieder2006-SCHACK,abstract = {The main contribution of this paper is a novel account of ontological dependence. While dependence is often explained in terms of modality and existence, there are relations of dependence that slip through the mesh of such an account. Starting from an idea proposed by Jonathan Lowe, the article develops an account of ontological dependence based on a notion of explanation; on its basis, certain relations of dependence can be established that cannot be accounted by the modal-existential account. Dependence is only one of two main topics of this paper, for it is approached via a discussion of the category of substance. On a traditional view, substances can be characterised as independent entities. Before the background of a modal-existential account of dependence, this idea appears problematic. The proposed notion of explanatory dependence is shown to vindicate the traditional approach to substance.},pages = {393--419},title = {A Certain Kind of Trinity: Dependence, Substance, Explanation},author = {Benjamin Schnieder},volume = {129},year = {2006},number = {2},journal = {Philosophical Studies}}@

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• A Certain Kind of Trinity: Dependence, Substance, Explanation

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• 2006

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