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

21664	Supervenience offers little explanation for things which necessarily go together [Hofweber]
	Full Idea: The results from the use of supervenience in philosophical theorising are limited. In particular, modal notions can't distinguish between things which necessarily go together. For example, that truths about numbers are grounded in truths about sets.
	From: Thomas Hofweber (Ontology and the Ambitions of Metaphysics [2016], 13.4.1)
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