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    In philosophy, supervenience refers to a relation between sets of properties or sets of facts. X is said to supervene on Y if and only if some difference...
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  • "metaphysical or logical combination of properties" using the notion of supervenience: A property A is said to supervene on a property B if any change in...
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  • The principle of moral supervenience states that moral predicates (e.g., permissible, obligatory, forbidden, etc.) supervene upon non-moral predicates...
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  • work on mental causation, the mind-body problem and the metaphysics of supervenience and events. Key themes in his work include: a rejection of Cartesian...
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  • present, the same predicate applies. According to the principle of moral supervenience, moral properties of actions (obligatory, permissible, forbidden, etc...
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    counterpart theory, counterfactual causation, and the position called "Humean supervenience". Most comprehensively in On the Plurality of Worlds, Lewis defended...
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  • Davidson uses the thesis of supervenience: mental states supervene on physical states, but are not reducible to them. "Supervenience" therefore describes a...
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  • modal realism". In Preyer, G.; Siebelt, F. (eds.). Reality and Humean Supervenience: Essays on the Philosophy of David Lewis. Studies in Epistemology and...
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    Analytic–synthetic distinction Counterfactual Natural kind Reflective equilibrium Supervenience Philosophers Noam Chomsky Keith Donnellan Gottlob Frege Edmund Gettier...
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  • pressure Specific heat capacity Physical property Strength of materials Supervenience List of thermodynamic properties "ISO 80000-1:2022 Quantities and units...
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