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Single Idea 2329
[filed under theme 7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 3. Reality
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Full Idea
A plausible criterion for distinguishing what is real from what is not real is the possession of causal power.
Gist of Idea
Causal power is a good way of distinguishing the real from the unreal
Source
Jaegwon Kim (Mind in a Physical World [1998], §4 p.119)
Book Ref
Kim,Jaegwon: 'Mind in the Physical World' [MIT 2000], p.119
Related Idea
Idea 7022
To be is to have a capacity, to act on other things, or to receive actions [Plato]
The
22 ideas
from 'Mind in a Physical World'
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13314
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Protagoras says arguments on both sides are always equal
[Kim, by Seneca]
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2308
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Identity theory was overthrown by multiple realisations and causal anomalies
[Kim]
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2309
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Non-Reductive Physicalism relies on supervenience
[Kim]
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2310
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Supervenience is linked to dependence
[Kim]
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2311
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Maybe strong supervenience implies reduction
[Kim]
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2313
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Emergentism says there is no explanation for a supervenient property
[Kim]
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2314
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Maybe intentionality is reducible, but qualia aren't
[Kim]
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2315
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Mereological supervenience says wholes are fixed by parts
[Kim]
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2317
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Reductionism is good on light, genes, temperature and transparency
[Kim, by PG]
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2318
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Agency, knowledge, reason, memory, psychology all need mental causes
[Kim, by PG]
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2319
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Metaphysics is the clarification of the ontological relationships between different areas of thought
[Kim]
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2320
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Properties can have causal powers lacked by their constituents
[Kim]
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2322
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Multiple realisation applies to other species, and even one individual over time
[Kim]
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2323
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Emotions have both intentionality and qualia
[Kim]
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2325
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It seems impossible that an exact physical copy of this world could lack intentionality
[Kim]
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2324
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Intentionality as function seems possible
[Kim]
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2327
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Knowledge and inversion make functionalism about qualia doubtful
[Kim]
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2328
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The only mental property that might be emergent is that of qualia
[Kim]
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2329
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Causal power is a good way of distinguishing the real from the unreal
[Kim]
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1550
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Why didn't Protagoras begin by saying "a tadpole is the measure of all things"?
[Plato on Kim]
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2065
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Not every person is the measure of all things, but only wise people
[Plato on Kim]
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530
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There are two contradictory arguments about everything
[Kim]
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