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Full Idea
Mereological supervenience is the doctrine that wholes are fixed by the properties and relations that characterise their parts.
Gist of Idea
Mereological supervenience says wholes are fixed by parts
Source
Jaegwon Kim (Mind in a Physical World [1998], §1 p.018)
Book Ref
Kim,Jaegwon: 'Mind in the Physical World' [MIT 2000], p.18
A Reaction
Presumably this would be the opposite of 'holism'. Personally I would take mereological supervenience to be not merely correct, but to be metaphysically necessary. Don't ask me to prove it, of course.
| 3841 | Users of 'supervenience' blur its causal and constitutive meanings [Searle] |
| 2315 | Mereological supervenience says wholes are fixed by parts [Kim] |
| 3991 | Where pixels make up a picture, supervenience is reduction [Lewis] |
| 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] |
| 2393 | Logical supervenience is when one set of properties must be accompanied by another set [Chalmers] |
| 2394 | Natural supervenience is when one set of properties is always accompanied by another set [Chalmers] |
| 11055 | Supervenience can add covariation, upward dependence, and nomological connection [Hanna] |
| 16047 | Weak supervenience is in one world, strong supervenience in all possible worlds [Bennett,K] |