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Single Idea 13747
[filed under theme 7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / a. Nature of supervenience
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Full Idea
Supervenience is mere modal correlation.
Gist of Idea
Supervenience is just modal correlation
Source
Jonathan Schaffer (On What Grounds What [2009], 2.2)
Book Ref
'Metametaphysics', ed/tr. Chalmers/Manley/Wasserman [OUP 2009], p.364
The
12 ideas
from 'On What Grounds What'
13734
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Modern Quinean metaphysics is about what exists, but Aristotelian metaphysics asks about grounding
[Schaffer,J]
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13739
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Maybe categories are just the different ways that things depend on basic substances
[Schaffer,J]
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13741
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If 'there are red roses' implies 'there are roses', then 'there are prime numbers' implies 'there are numbers'
[Schaffer,J]
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13744
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The cosmos is the only fundamental entity, from which all else exists by abstraction
[Schaffer,J]
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13743
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We should not multiply basic entities, but we can have as many derivative entities as we like
[Schaffer,J]
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13740
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'Moorean certainties' are more credible than any sceptical argument
[Schaffer,J]
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13742
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There exist heaps with no integral unity, so we should accept arbitrary composites in the same way
[Schaffer,J]
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13748
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Grounding is unanalysable and primitive, and is the basic structuring concept in metaphysics
[Schaffer,J]
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13747
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Supervenience is just modal correlation
[Schaffer,J]
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13751
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If you tore the metaphysics out of philosophy, the whole enterprise would collapse
[Schaffer,J]
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13749
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Belief in impossible worlds may require dialetheism
[Schaffer,J]
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13752
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The notion of 'grounding' can explain integrated wholes in a way that mere aggregates can't
[Schaffer,J]
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