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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / c. Significance of supervenience
Supervenience is simply modally robust property co-variance [Hendry]
     Full Idea: Supervenience is not an ontological relationship, being just modally robust property co-variance.
     From: Robin F. Hendry (Chemistry [2008], 'Ontol')
     A reaction: I take supervenience to be nothing more than an interesting phenomenon that requires explanation. I suppose Humean Supervenience is a priori metaphysics, since you could hardly explain it.