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Single Idea 19281
[filed under theme 7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / a. Nature of supervenience
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Full Idea
Any intereresting supervenience thesis requires that the class of facts on which the allegedly supervening facts supervene be characterizable independently, without use or presupposition of the notions involved in stating the supervening facts.
Gist of Idea
Interesting supervenience must characterise the base quite differently from what supervenes on it
Source
Bob Hale (Necessary Beings [2013], 03.4.1)
Book Ref
Hale,Bob: 'Necessary Beings' [OUP 2013], p.82
A Reaction
There might be intermediate cases here, since having descriptions which are utterly unconnected (at any level) might be rather challenging.
The
14 ideas
with the same theme
[defining and elucidating supervenience]:
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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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