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Ideas for 'Metaphysics', 'Contextualism Contested (and reply)' and 'Postscripts on supervenience'

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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 4. Ontological Dependence

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Prior things can exist without posterior things, but not vice versa [Aristotle]

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

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Supervenience is not a dependence relation, on the lines of causal, mereological or semantic dependence [Kim]

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Supervenience is just a 'surface' relation of pattern covariation, which still needs deeper explanation [Kim]