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Ideas for 'works', 'Introduction to Philosophical Papers II' and 'New Proof of Possibility of Well-Ordering'

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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / d. Humean supervenience

16210	Humean supervenience says the world is just a vast mosaic of qualities in space-time [Lewis]
	Full Idea: Humean supervenience says the world is a vast mosaic of local matters of particular fact. We have a geometry of external relations of spatio-temporal distance between points, and local qualities at points. …In short: we have an arrangement of qualities.
	From: David Lewis (Introduction to Philosophical Papers II [1986], p.ix-x)
	A reaction: [compressed] This is the key fundamental tenet of David Lewis's philosophy. He names it after Hume because it contains no necessary connections. It is 'supervenient' because all worldly truths reduce to and depend on the mosaic. His thesis is contingent.