What is the explanatory role of ‘status-truths’ such as essence-truths, necessity-truths and law-truths? A plausible principle, suggested by various authors, is Ground by Status, according to which status truths ground their prejacents. For instance, if it is essential to a that p, then this grounds the fact that p. But Ground by Status faces a forceful objection: it is inconsistent with widely accepted principles regarding the logic of grounding (Glazier in Philos Stud 174(11):2871–2889, 2017a, Synthese 174(198):1409–1424, 2017b; Kappes in Synthese 199(1–2):2575–2595, 2020, Philos Stud 178(4):1267–1284, 2021). I defend Ground by Status against this objection.

本质真理、必然真理、规律真理等“地位真理”的解释作用是什么？多位作者提出的一个看似合理的原则是“地位为基础”，根据这一原则，地位真理为他们的偏见奠定了基础。例如，如果p对于a来说是必要的，那么这就证明了p的事实。但地位接地面临着强有力的反对：它与广泛接受的有关接地逻辑的原则不一致（Glazier in Philos Stud 174(11):2871–2889, 2017a, Synthese 174(198):1409–1424, 2017b; Kappes载于 Synthese 199(1–2):2575–2595, 2020, Philos Stud 178(4):1267–1284, 2021）。我以地位为基础，反对这种反对意见。