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3536 | Supervenient properties must have matching base properties |
Full Idea: Each supervenient property necessarily has a coextensive property in the base family. | |||
From: Jaegwon Kim (Concepts of supervenience [1984], §5) | |||
A reaction: This is presumably the minimum requirement for a situation of supervenience. How do you decide which property is the 'base' property? Do we just mean that the base causes the other, but not vice versa? |