This paper discusses a recent puzzle concerning the notions of boundary parthood and dependence, and offers a new solution. The puzzle was originally presented by Jeroen Smid and successively elaborated upon by Claudio Calosi. I first reformulate some of the troublesome premises. Particularly, whereas Smid and Calosi discuss the puzzle in terms of an underspecified notion of dependence, I propose to construe it in terms of the notion of grounding. In this manner, the dependence relation inherently carries an asymmetry, and we can effectively utilize its four places. The solution I advance precisely takes advantage of this feature of dependence. My proposal avoids the contradiction while still respecting the intuitions driving the original premises. It is also fully compatible with boundaries being only generically dependent on their wholes.

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接地和边界

本文讨论了最近关于边界部分和依赖概念的难题，并提供了一个新的解决方案。该谜题最初由 Jeroen Smid 提出，随后由 Claudio Calosi 详细阐述。我首先重新阐述一些麻烦的前提。特别是，尽管斯米德和卡洛西根据未明确的依赖概念讨论了这个难题，但我建议根据基础概念来解释它。这样，依赖关系本身就带有不对称性，我们可以有效地利用它的四个地方。我提出的解决方案正是利用了这种依赖性的特点。我的建议避免了矛盾，同时仍然尊重驱动原始前提的直觉。它也与仅一般依赖于其整体的边界完全兼容。