Ideas from 'The Impossibility of Superdupervenience' by Lynch,MP/Glasgow,JM [2003], by Theme Structure
[found in 'Philosophical Studies' (ed/tr -) [- ,]].
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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 3. Levels of Reality
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A necessary relation between fact-levels seems to be a further irreducible fact
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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / c. Significance of supervenience
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If some facts 'logically supervene' on some others, they just redescribe them, adding nothing
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 6. Physicalism
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Nonreductive materialism says upper 'levels' depend on lower, but don't 'reduce'
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The hallmark of physicalism is that each causal power has a base causal power under it
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