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Summary Of: Superveniencesupervenience is not symmetric... Supervenience has traditionally been used to describe relationships between sets of properties in a manner which... supervenience allows one to hold that... supervenience might be taken to mean that there cannot be two events alike in all physical... supervenience claims typically involve some modal force... specified depends on which more specific variety of supervenience one decides upon... because they do not correspond to actual supervenience relations until the sets of properties A and B... There are many varieties of supervenience proposed in the philosophical literature... more common we shall focus on varieties of supervenience based on it... The value of global supervenience is that it allows for supervenient properties to be determined not by local properties of... Both local and global supervenience come in many forms... Local supervenience comes in strong and weak varieties... supervenient properties that hold in virtue of the supervenience relation are maintained within each world... physical supervenience on the simple formulation described above for two worlds to have the same number of... several varieties of global supervenience can be defined... There is also discussion among philosophers about mental supervenience and our experience of duration... There are several applications of the theory of supervenience to be found in... we can find supervenience wherever a message is conveyed by a representational medium... Although supervenience seems to be perfectly suited to explain the predictions of physicalism... If supervenience physicalism is true... by adjusting the application of supervenience within physicalism to state... and therefore supervenience physicalism could not be contingent...Encyclodia Page On: Supervenience |
