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Supervenience logo #10101) Concept in metaphysics
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Supervenience

Supervenience logo #21000 In philosophy, supervenience is an ontological relation that is used to describe cases where (roughly speaking) the lower-level properties of a system determine its higher level properties. Some philosophers hold that the world is structured in to a kind of hierarchy of properties, where the higher level properties supervene on the lower level pro...
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supervenience logo #21003(from the article `Lewis, David Kellogg`) 4. Given any possible world in which every inhabitant of that world is in space and time (as is the case in the actual world), everything true about ...
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