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Full Idea
It is customary to associate supervenience with the idea of dependence or determination.
Clarification
[If A is supervenient on B, then A depends on B, or B determines A]
Gist of Idea
Supervenience is linked to dependence
Source
Jaegwon Kim (Mind in a Physical World [1998], §1 p.011)
Book Ref
Kim,Jaegwon: 'Mind in the Physical World' [MIT 2000], p.11
A Reaction
It is only 'customary' because, in principle, the supervenience might just be a coincidence. I might follow someone everywhere because I love them (dependence) or because they force me to (determination). There's always a reason.
| 12922 | A thing 'expresses' another if they have a constant and fixed relationship [Leibniz] |
| 3536 | Supervenient properties must have matching base properties [Kim] |
| 2310 | Supervenience is linked to dependence [Kim] |
| 9650 | Supervenience concerns whether things could differ, so it is a modal notion [Lewis] |
| 4077 | Aesthetic properties of thing supervene on their physical properties [Crane] |
| 2392 | Properties supervene if you can't have one without the other [Chalmers] |
| 10421 | Supervenience is nowadays seen as between properties, rather than linguistic [Swoyer] |
| 19281 | Interesting supervenience must characterise the base quite differently from what supervenes on it [Hale] |
| 15017 | Supervenience is a modal connection [Sider] |
| 6155 | Supervenience is a one-way relation of dependence or determination between properties [Rowlands] |
| 13747 | Supervenience is just modal correlation [Schaffer,J] |
| 16039 | Supervenience: No A-difference without a B-difference [Bennett,K] |
| 16043 | Supervenience is non-symmetric - sometimes it's symmetric, and sometimes it's one-way [Bennett,K] |
| 18680 | To avoid misunderstandings supervenience is often expressed negatively: no A-change without B-change [Orsi] |