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Ideas for 'works', 'Ontological Dependence' and 'The Impossibility of Superdupervenience'

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6 ideas

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 3. Levels of Reality

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A necessary relation between fact-levels seems to be a further irreducible fact [Lynch/Glasgow]

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

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A natural modal account of dependence says x depends on y if y must exist when x does [Fine,K]

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An object depends on another if the second cannot be eliminated from the first's definition [Fine,K]

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Dependency is the real counterpart of one term defining another [Fine,K]

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There is 'weak' dependence in one definition, and 'strong' dependence in all the definitions [Fine,K]

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

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If some facts 'logically supervene' on some others, they just redescribe them, adding nothing [Lynch/Glasgow]