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Single Idea 9650
[filed under theme 7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / a. Nature of supervenience
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Full Idea
The idea of supervenience is when there could be no difference of one sort without difference of another sort. ..Clearly this 'could' indicates modality, and without modality we have nothing of interest.
Gist of Idea
Supervenience concerns whether things could differ, so it is a modal notion
Source
David Lewis (On the Plurality of Worlds [1986], 1.2)
Book Ref
Lewis,David: 'On the Plurality of Worlds' [Blackwell 2001], p.15
A Reaction
This might explain why philosophers are going to be more at home with the concept than neuroscientists would be.
The
14 ideas
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[defining and elucidating supervenience]:
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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