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'Consciousness', 'In Praise of Philosophy' and 'The Conscious Mind'
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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 2. Reduction
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6531
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Institutions are not reducible as types, but they are as tokens [Lycan]
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Types cannot be reduced, but levels of reduction are varied groupings of the same tokens [Lycan]
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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 3. Levels of Reality
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One location may contain molecules, a metal strip, a key, an opener of doors, and a human tragedy [Lycan]
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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / a. Nature of supervenience
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Properties supervene if you can't have one without the other [Chalmers]
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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / b. Types of supervenience
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Logical supervenience is when one set of properties must be accompanied by another set [Chalmers]
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Natural supervenience is when one set of properties is always accompanied by another set [Chalmers]
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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / c. Significance of supervenience
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Reduction requires logical supervenience [Chalmers]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 6. Physicalism
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Physicalism says in any two physically indiscernible worlds the positive facts are the same [Chalmers, by Bennett,K]
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7. Existence / E. Categories / 3. Proposed Categories
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All facts are either physical, experiential, laws of nature, second-order final facts, or indexical facts about me [Chalmers]
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I see the 'role'/'occupant' distinction as fundamental to metaphysics [Lycan]
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