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Single Idea 6155
[filed under theme 7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / a. Nature of supervenience
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Full Idea
Supervenience is essentially a one-way relation of dependence or determination, …which holds, in the first instance, between properties.
Gist of Idea
Supervenience is a one-way relation of dependence or determination between properties
Source
Mark Rowlands (Externalism [2003], Ch.2)
Book Ref
Rowlands,Mark: 'Externalism' [Acumen 2003], p.15
A Reaction
This definition immediately shows why supervenient properties are in danger of being epiphenomenal (i.e. causally irrelevant). Carefully thought about the notion of a 'one-way' relation will, I think, make it more obscure rather than clearer.
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from Mark Rowlands
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6177
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Moral intuition seems unevenly distributed between people
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6178
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It is common to see the value of nature in one feature, such as life, diversity, or integrity
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6156
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The 17th century reintroduced atoms as mathematical modes of Euclidean space
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6158
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Supervenience of mental and physical properties often comes with token-identity of mental and physical particulars
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6157
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Tokens are dated, concrete particulars; types are their general properties or kinds
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6155
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Supervenience is a one-way relation of dependence or determination between properties
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6154
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It is argued that wholes possess modal and counterfactual properties that parts lack
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6152
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Minds are rational, conscious, subjective, self-knowing, free, meaningful and self-aware
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6161
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Structuralism is neo-Kantian idealism, with language playing the role of categories of understanding
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6163
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If bivalence is rejected, then excluded middle must also be rejected
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6159
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Strong idealism is the sort of mess produced by a Cartesian separation of mind and world
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6168
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The content of a thought is just the meaning of a sentence
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6167
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Action is bodily movement caused by intentional states
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6170
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Natural kinds are defined by their real essence, as in gold having atomic number 79
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6173
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Content externalism implies that we do not have privileged access to our own minds
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6174
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If someone is secretly transported to Twin Earth, others know their thoughts better than they do
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