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Ideas for 'works', 'Mind, Brain and the Quantum' and 'On Relations of Universals and Particulars'

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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / c. Significance of supervenience

16045	General facts supervene on particular facts, but cannot be inferred from them [Russell, by Bennett,K]
	Full Idea: Russell noted that you cannot arrive at general facts by inference from numerous particular facts, ..but general facts logically supervene on particular ones. So the general facts supervene, but are not entailed.
	From: report of Bertrand Russell (On Relations of Universals and Particulars [1911]) by Karen Bennett - Supervenience §3.2
	A reaction: The belief that the general facts supervene on the particular ones then seems to be more a matter of faith than of fact. Or maybe it is analytic, depending on what we understand by 'general'. Universal, or generalised?

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 2. Realism

2969	How does a direct realist distinguish a building from Buckingham Palace? [Lockwood]
	Full Idea: It is one thing to see a building, and another to see it as a building, and yet another to see it as Buckingham Palace. How does the commonsense realist think that this is accomplished?
	From: Michael Lockwood (Mind, Brain and the Quantum [1989], p.302)