Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'On Minerals' and 'Postscripts on supervenience'

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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]

9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 2. Hylomorphism / a. Hylomorphism

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Substantial forms must exist, to explain the stability of metals like silver and tin [Albertus Magnus]

13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 2. Knowledge as Convention

1556	By nature people are close to one another, but culture drives them apart [Hippias]