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[from 'Supervenience' by Karen Bennett, in 7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / a. Nature of supervenience ]

Full Idea

The slogan for supervenience might be 'there cannot be an A-difference without a B-difference'. …(qualifying as a 'perfect forgery' would be an example).

Gist of Idea

Supervenience: No A-difference without a B-difference

Source

Karen Bennett (Supervenience [2011], Intro)

Book Reference

'Stanford Online Encyclopaedia of Philosophy', ed/tr. Stanford University [plato.stanford.edu], p.1


A Reaction

The key point about supervenience is that it is one-way. Presumably 'tracking' would be a better single word for it than 'dependence', which implies some sort of causal power. Supervenience describes, but doesn't attempt to explain.