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Single Idea 2310

[filed under theme 7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / a. Nature of supervenience ]

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.

The 22 ideas from 'Mind in a Physical World'

13314 Protagoras says arguments on both sides are always equal [Kim, by Seneca]
2308 Identity theory was overthrown by multiple realisations and causal anomalies [Kim]
2309 Non-Reductive Physicalism relies on supervenience [Kim]
2310 Supervenience is linked to dependence [Kim]
2311 Maybe strong supervenience implies reduction [Kim]
2313 Emergentism says there is no explanation for a supervenient property [Kim]
2314 Maybe intentionality is reducible, but qualia aren't [Kim]
2315 Mereological supervenience says wholes are fixed by parts [Kim]
2317 Reductionism is good on light, genes, temperature and transparency [Kim, by PG]
2318 Agency, knowledge, reason, memory, psychology all need mental causes [Kim, by PG]
2319 Metaphysics is the clarification of the ontological relationships between different areas of thought [Kim]
2320 Properties can have causal powers lacked by their constituents [Kim]
2322 Multiple realisation applies to other species, and even one individual over time [Kim]
2323 Emotions have both intentionality and qualia [Kim]
2325 It seems impossible that an exact physical copy of this world could lack intentionality [Kim]
2324 Intentionality as function seems possible [Kim]
2327 Knowledge and inversion make functionalism about qualia doubtful [Kim]
2328 The only mental property that might be emergent is that of qualia [Kim]
2329 Causal power is a good way of distinguishing the real from the unreal [Kim]
1550 Why didn't Protagoras begin by saying "a tadpole is the measure of all things"? [Plato on Kim]
2065 Not every person is the measure of all things, but only wise people [Plato on Kim]
530 There are two contradictory arguments about everything [Kim]