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Full Idea
B-properties logically supervene on A-properties if no two logically possible situations are identical with respect to their A-properties but distinct with respect to their B-properties.
Gist of Idea
Logical supervenience is when one set of properties must be accompanied by another set
Source
David J.Chalmers (The Conscious Mind [1996], 1.2.1)
Book Ref
Chalmers,David J.: 'The Conscious Mind' [OUP 1997], p.35
A Reaction
This is the gap into which Chalmers wants to slip zombies. He's wrong. He thinks that because he can imagine Bs without As, that this makes their separation logically possible. No doubt he can imagine a bonfire on the moon.
| 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] |