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Single Idea 3536
[filed under theme 7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / a. Nature of supervenience
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Full Idea
Each supervenient property necessarily has a coextensive property in the base family.
Gist of Idea
Supervenient properties must have matching base properties
Source
Jaegwon Kim (Concepts of supervenience [1984], §5)
Book Ref
Kim,Jaegwon: 'Supervenience and Mind' [CUP 1993], p.72
A Reaction
This is presumably the minimum requirement for a situation of supervenience. How do you decide which property is the 'base' property? Do we just mean that the base causes the other, but not vice versa?
The
14 ideas
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[defining and elucidating supervenience]:
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12922
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A thing 'expresses' another if they have a constant and fixed relationship
[Leibniz]
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3536
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Supervenient properties must have matching base properties
[Kim]
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2310
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Supervenience is linked to dependence
[Kim]
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9650
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Supervenience concerns whether things could differ, so it is a modal notion
[Lewis]
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4077
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Aesthetic properties of thing supervene on their physical properties
[Crane]
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2392
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Properties supervene if you can't have one without the other
[Chalmers]
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10421
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Supervenience is nowadays seen as between properties, rather than linguistic
[Swoyer]
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19281
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Interesting supervenience must characterise the base quite differently from what supervenes on it
[Hale]
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15017
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Supervenience is a modal connection
[Sider]
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6155
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Supervenience is a one-way relation of dependence or determination between properties
[Rowlands]
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13747
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Supervenience is just modal correlation
[Schaffer,J]
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16039
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Supervenience: No A-difference without a B-difference
[Bennett,K]
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16043
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Supervenience is non-symmetric - sometimes it's symmetric, and sometimes it's one-way
[Bennett,K]
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18680
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To avoid misunderstandings supervenience is often expressed negatively: no A-change without B-change
[Orsi]
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