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Single Idea 8607
[filed under theme 7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 2. Reduction
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Full Idea
Supervenience is a stripped down form of reductionism, unencumbered by dubious denials of existence, claims of ontological priority, or claims of translatability.
Gist of Idea
Supervenience is reduction without existence denials, ontological priorities, or translatability
Source
David Lewis (New work for a theory of universals [1983], 'Dup,Sup,Div')
Book Ref
'Properties', ed/tr. Mellor,D.H. /Oliver,A [OUP 1997], p.205
A Reaction
Interesting. It implies that the honest reductionist (i.e. me) should begin by asserting supervience, and only at a second stage go on to deny a bit of existence, loudly affirm priorities, and offer translations. Honest toil.
The
25 ideas
with the same theme
[explaining higher levels of existence by lower ones]:
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3425
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Reduction has been defined as deriving one theory from another by logic and maths
[Nagel,E, by Kim]
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6550
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Reduction requires that an object's properties consist of its constituents' properties and relations
[Sellars]
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5791
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Reduction is either by elimination, or by explanation
[Searle]
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5799
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Eliminative reduction needs a gap between appearance and reality, as in sunsets
[Searle]
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3473
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Reduction can be of things, properties, ideas or causes
[Searle]
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6984
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Smooth reductions preserve high-level laws in the lower level
[Jackson]
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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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3990
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The whole truth supervenes on the physical truth
[Lewis]
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8607
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Supervenience is reduction without existence denials, ontological priorities, or translatability
[Lewis]
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5516
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Reduction can be by identity, or constitution, or elimination
[Parfit, by PG]
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4986
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A weaker kind of reductionism than direct translation is the use of 'bridge laws'
[Kirk,R]
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6531
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Institutions are not reducible as types, but they are as tokens
[Lycan]
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6532
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Types cannot be reduced, but levels of reduction are varied groupings of the same tokens
[Lycan]
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21110
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An understanding of the most basic physics should explain all of the subject's mysteries
[Krauss]
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7017
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The reductionist programme dispenses with levels of reality
[Heil]
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15050
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Reduction might be producing a sentence which gets closer to the logical form
[Fine,K]
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15051
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Reduction might be semantic, where a reduced sentence is understood through its reduction
[Fine,K]
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15052
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Reduction is modal, if the reductions necessarily entail the truth of the target sentence
[Fine,K]
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15056
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The notion of reduction (unlike that of 'ground') implies the unreality of what is reduced
[Fine,K]
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18539
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Our categories lack the neat arrangement needed for reduction
[Heil]
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7508
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Good reductionism connects fields of knowledge, but doesn't replace one with another
[Pinker]
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14599
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Three types of reduction: Theoretical (of terms), Definitional (of concepts), Ontological (of reality)
[Schaffer,J]
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7944
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Reduce by bridge laws (plus property identities?), by elimination, or by reducing talk
[Macdonald,C]
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22180
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Multiple realisability is said to make reduction impossible
[Okasha]
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16345
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That Peano arithmetic is interpretable in ZF set theory is taken by philosophers as a reduction
[Halbach]
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