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Full Idea
At base it is not merely, as Lewis says, that everything else supervenes on the Mosaic; but rather that anything that exists at all is just a feature or element or generic property of the Mosaic.
Gist of Idea
Lewis says it supervenes on the Mosaic, but actually thinks the Mosaic is all there is
Source
Tim Maudlin (The Metaphysics within Physics [2007], 6)
Book Ref
Maudlin,Tim: 'The Metaphysics within Physics' [OUP 2007], p.171
A Reaction
[Maudlin has just quoted Idea 16210] Correct about Lewis, but Lewis just has a normal view of supervenience. Only 'emergentists' would think the supervenience allowed anything more, and they are deeply misguided, and in need of help.
Related Idea
Idea 16210 Humean supervenience says the world is just a vast mosaic of qualities in space-time [Lewis]
| 17661 | We don't recognise patterns - we invent them [Goodman] |
| 16210 | Humean supervenience says the world is just a vast mosaic of qualities in space-time [Lewis] |
| 16211 | A homogeneous rotating disc should be undetectable according to Humean supervenience [Hawley] |
| 16243 | The Humean view is wrong; laws and direction of time are primitive, and atoms are decided by physics [Maudlin] |
| 16271 | Lewis says it supervenes on the Mosaic, but actually thinks the Mosaic is all there is [Maudlin] |
| 16273 | If the Humean Mosaic is ontological bedrock, there can be no explanation of its structure [Maudlin] |
| 16275 | The 'spinning disc' is just impossible, because there cannot be 'homogeneous matter' [Maudlin] |
| 19012 | The Humean supervenience base entirely excludes modality [Vetter] |