Single Idea 3536

[catalogued under 7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / a. Nature of supervenience]

Full Idea

Each supervenient property necessarily has a coextensive property in the base family.

Gist of Idea

Supervenient properties must have matching base properties

Source

Jaegwon Kim (Concepts of supervenience [1984], §5)

Book Reference

Kim,Jaegwon: 'Supervenience and Mind' [CUP 1993], p.72


A Reaction

This is presumably the minimum requirement for a situation of supervenience. How do you decide which property is the 'base' property? Do we just mean that the base causes the other, but not vice versa?