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Full Idea
The results from the use of supervenience in philosophical theorising are limited. In particular, modal notions can't distinguish between things which necessarily go together. For example, that truths about numbers are grounded in truths about sets.
Gist of Idea
Supervenience offers little explanation for things which necessarily go together
Source
Thomas Hofweber (Ontology and the Ambitions of Metaphysics [2016], 13.4.1)
Book Ref
Hofweber,Thomas: 'Ontology and the Ambitions of Metaphysics' [OUP 2018], p.327
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