Consider an ordinary physical object, such as a table, and the atoms it is made of.
Grounding is often considered to be a form of non-causal determination or priority.
Here "because" does not express a causal relation (where the cause precedes the effect in time).
For example, according to Aristotle, substances have the highest degree of fundamentality because they exist in themselves.
[citation needed] The notion of grounding has been used to analyze the relation between truthmakers and truthbearers.
[7] The basic idea is that truthbearers (like beliefs, sentences or propositions) are not intrinsically true or false but that their truth depends on something else.