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Single Idea 13745
[filed under theme 7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / c. Significance of supervenience
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Full Idea
It is a mistake, or at least misleading, to think of supervenience itself as a special and distinctive type of dependence relation, alongside causal dependence, mereological dependence, semantic dependence, and others.
Gist of Idea
Supervenience is not a dependence relation, on the lines of causal, mereological or semantic dependence
Source
Jaegwon Kim (Postscripts on supervenience [1993], 2)
Book Ref
Kim,Jaegwon: 'Supervenience and Mind' [CUP 1993], p.167
A Reaction
The point, I take it, is that supervenience is something which requires explanation, rather than being a conclusion to the debate. Why are statues beautiful? Why do brains generate minds?
Related Idea
Idea 13746
Supervenience is just a 'surface' relation of pattern covariation, which still needs deeper explanation [Kim]
The
23 ideas
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[what should be inferred from a supervenience]:
3644
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Two things being joined together doesn't prove they are the same
[Descartes]
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16045
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General facts supervene on particular facts, but cannot be inferred from them
[Russell, by Bennett,K]
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16051
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Life has a new supervenient relation, which alters its underlying physical events
[Morgan,L]
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16050
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The goodness of a picture supervenes on the picture; duplicates must be equally good
[Hare]
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3532
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Solidity in a piston is integral to its structure, not supervenient
[Maslin on Searle]
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3533
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Is supervenience just causality?
[Searle, by Maslin]
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3431
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Supervenience suggest dependence without reduction (e.g. beauty)
[Kim]
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13745
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Supervenience is not a dependence relation, on the lines of causal, mereological or semantic dependence
[Kim]
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13746
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Supervenience is just a 'surface' relation of pattern covariation, which still needs deeper explanation
[Kim]
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4242
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Pure supervenience explains nothing, and is a sign of something fundamental we don't know
[Nagel]
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8606
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A supervenience thesis is a denial of independent variation
[Lewis]
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16056
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Don't just observe supervenience - explain it!
[Horgan,T]
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4078
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Constitution (as in a statue constituted by its marble) is supervenience without identity
[Crane]
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2398
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Reduction requires logical supervenience
[Chalmers]
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3523
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Shadows are supervenient on their objects, but not reducible
[Maslin]
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16061
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If some facts 'logically supervene' on some others, they just redescribe them, adding nothing
[Lynch/Glasgow]
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9500
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If naturalism refers to supervenience, that leaves necessary entities untouched
[Bird]
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21664
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Supervenience offers little explanation for things which necessarily go together
[Hofweber]
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17486
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Supervenience is simply modally robust property co-variance
[Hendry]
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17322
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Necessities supervene on everything, but don't depend on everything
[Liggins]
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16040
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Aesthetics, morality and mind supervene on the physical? Modal on non-modal? General on particular?
[Bennett,K]
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16044
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Some entailments do not involve supervenience, as when brotherhood entails siblinghood
[Bennett,K]
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16046
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Reduction requires supervenience, but does supervenience suffice for reduction?
[Bennett,K]
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