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Ideas for 'Leviathan', 'Morality and Human Sexuality' and 'New work for a theory of universals'

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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 2. Reduction
Supervenience is reduction without existence denials, ontological priorities, or translatability [Lewis]
7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / c. Significance of supervenience
A supervenience thesis is a denial of independent variation [Lewis]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 6. Physicalism
Every part of the universe is body, and non-body is not part of it [Hobbes]
Materialism is (roughly) that two worlds cannot differ without differing physically [Lewis]