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All the ideas for 'The Sign of Four', 'From Supervenience to Superdupervenience' and 'Classes and Attributes'

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8 ideas

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / b. Types of supervenience

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'Superdupervenience' is supervenience that has a robustly materialistic explanation [Horgan,T]

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'Global' supervenience is facts tracking varying physical facts in every possible world [Horgan,T]

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

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Don't just observe supervenience - explain it! [Horgan,T]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 6. Physicalism

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Physicalism needs more than global supervenience on the physical [Horgan,T]

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Materialism requires that physics be causally complete [Horgan,T]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 11. Properties as Sets

9783	While no two classes coincide in membership, there are distinct but coextensive attributes [Cartwright,R]

14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 3. Instrumentalism

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Instrumentalism normally says some discourse is useful, but not genuinely true [Horgan,T]

14. Science / C. Induction / 1. Induction

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If you eliminate the impossible, the truth will remain, even if it is weird [Conan Doyle]