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Full Idea
It seems unavoidable that the facts about logically necessary relations between levels of facts are themselves logically distinct further facts, irreducible to the microphysical facts.
Gist of Idea
A necessary relation between fact-levels seems to be a further irreducible fact
Source
Lynch,MP/Glasgow,JM (The Impossibility of Superdupervenience [2003], C)
Book Ref
-: 'Philosophical Studies' [-], p.215
A Reaction
I'm beginning to think that rejecting every theory of reality that is proposed by carefully exposing some infinite regress hidden in it is a rather lazy way to do philosophy. Almost as bad as rejecting anything if it can't be defined.