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Full Idea
It is sometimes said that the aesthetic properties of a thing supervene on its physical properties.
Clarification
'Aesthetics' is to do with beauty
Gist of Idea
Aesthetic properties of thing supervene on their physical properties
Source
Tim Crane (Elements of Mind [2001], 2.16)
Book Ref
Crane,Tim: 'Elements of Mind' [OUP 2001], p.57
A Reaction
A confusing example, as aesthetic properties only exist if there is an observer. Is 'supervenience' just an empty locution which tries to avoid reduction?
| 12922 | A thing 'expresses' another if they have a constant and fixed relationship [Leibniz] |
| 3536 | Supervenient properties must have matching base properties [Kim] |
| 2310 | Supervenience is linked to dependence [Kim] |
| 9650 | Supervenience concerns whether things could differ, so it is a modal notion [Lewis] |
| 4077 | Aesthetic properties of thing supervene on their physical properties [Crane] |
| 2392 | Properties supervene if you can't have one without the other [Chalmers] |
| 10421 | Supervenience is nowadays seen as between properties, rather than linguistic [Swoyer] |
| 19281 | Interesting supervenience must characterise the base quite differently from what supervenes on it [Hale] |
| 15017 | Supervenience is a modal connection [Sider] |
| 6155 | Supervenience is a one-way relation of dependence or determination between properties [Rowlands] |
| 13747 | Supervenience is just modal correlation [Schaffer,J] |
| 16039 | Supervenience: No A-difference without a B-difference [Bennett,K] |
| 16043 | Supervenience is non-symmetric - sometimes it's symmetric, and sometimes it's one-way [Bennett,K] |
| 18680 | To avoid misunderstandings supervenience is often expressed negatively: no A-change without B-change [Orsi] |