Supervenience
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title:
Supervenience
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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 in Y is necessary for any difference in X to be possible. Examples of supervenience, in which case the truth values of some propositions cannot vary unless the truth values of some other propositions vary, include:
- Whether there is a table in the living room supervenes on the positions of molecules in the living room.
- The truth value of
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Relation between sets of properties or facts
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supervenience
date created:
2003-10-27T14:17:11Z
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2024-09-12T17:14:45Z
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