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Single Idea 16043
[filed under theme 7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / a. Nature of supervenience
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Full Idea
Supervenience is neither symmetric nor asymmetric; it is non-symmetric. Sometimes it holds symmetrically. …And sometimes it holds asymmetrically.
Gist of Idea
Supervenience is non-symmetric - sometimes it's symmetric, and sometimes it's one-way
Source
Karen Bennett (Supervenience [2011], §3.2)
Book Ref
'Stanford Online Encyclopaedia of Philosophy', ed/tr. Stanford University [plato.stanford.edu], p.6
A Reaction
I think of supervenience as 'tracking'. Stalkers track victims; married couples track one another. Beauty tracks statues, but statues don't seem to track beauty. I take so-called mind-brain supervenience to be two-way, not one-way.
The
14 ideas
with the same theme
[defining and elucidating supervenience]:
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12922
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A thing 'expresses' another if they have a constant and fixed relationship
[Leibniz]
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3536
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Supervenient properties must have matching base properties
[Kim]
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2310
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Supervenience is linked to dependence
[Kim]
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9650
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Supervenience concerns whether things could differ, so it is a modal notion
[Lewis]
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4077
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Aesthetic properties of thing supervene on their physical properties
[Crane]
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2392
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Properties supervene if you can't have one without the other
[Chalmers]
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10421
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Supervenience is nowadays seen as between properties, rather than linguistic
[Swoyer]
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19281
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Interesting supervenience must characterise the base quite differently from what supervenes on it
[Hale]
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15017
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Supervenience is a modal connection
[Sider]
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6155
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Supervenience is a one-way relation of dependence or determination between properties
[Rowlands]
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13747
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Supervenience is just modal correlation
[Schaffer,J]
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16039
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Supervenience: No A-difference without a B-difference
[Bennett,K]
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16043
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Supervenience is non-symmetric - sometimes it's symmetric, and sometimes it's one-way
[Bennett,K]
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18680
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To avoid misunderstandings supervenience is often expressed negatively: no A-change without B-change
[Orsi]
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