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Full Idea
Although the task of explaining supervenience has been little appreciated and little discussed in the philosophical literature, it is time for that to change.
Gist of Idea
Don't just observe supervenience - explain it!
Source
Terence Horgan (From Supervenience to Superdupervenience [1993], §8)
Book Ref
-: 'Mind' [-], p.23
A Reaction
I would offer a strong addition to this: be absolutely sure that you are dealing with two distinct things in the supervenience relationship, before you waste time trying to explain how they relate to one another.
Related Idea
Idea 16052 'Superdupervenience' is supervenience that has a robustly materialistic explanation [Horgan,T]
16052 | 'Superdupervenience' is supervenience that has a robustly materialistic explanation [Horgan,T] |
16053 | 'Global' supervenience is facts tracking varying physical facts in every possible world [Horgan,T] |
16054 | Physicalism needs more than global supervenience on the physical [Horgan,T] |
16055 | Materialism requires that physics be causally complete [Horgan,T] |
16057 | Instrumentalism normally says some discourse is useful, but not genuinely true [Horgan,T] |
16056 | Don't just observe supervenience - explain it! [Horgan,T] |