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  • Properties that undergo fusion do not realize the i+1 property instance, as supervenient, realized properties would be co-present with subvenient properties.

    Emergent Properties O'Connor, Timothy 2006

  • Rather, Davidson appears to be claiming that mental properties influence the causal powers of their subvenient physical properties.

    Anomalous Monism Yalowitz, Steven 2005

  • Kim suggests that “equivalence seems to fail, through the failure of implication from global to strong supervenience, only when extrinsic properties are present in the supervenient set but disallowed from the subvenient base” (1993, 170; see also McLaughlin 1997a, 215).

    Supervenience McLaughlin, Brian 2005

  • He pointed out that Paull and Sider include an extrinsic property M in the supervenient set A, but only intrinsic properties P and Q in the subvenient or base set B.

    Supervenience McLaughlin, Brian 2005

  • But Klagge was clearly right that Paull and Sider's example involves a supervenient set A that contains an extrinsic property and a subvenient set B that contains only intrinsic properties, and he was right that this is important.

    Supervenience McLaughlin, Brian 2005

  • ¦ is not something ontologically additional to the subvenient, or necessitating, entity or entities.

    Monism Schaffer, Jonathan 2007

  • The upshot is that strong global and strong individual supervenience come apart “only when extrinsic properties are present in the supervenient set but disallowed from the subvenient base,” as Kim and others predicted (see

    Supervenience McLaughlin, Brian 2005

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