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superdupervenience

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  • noun philosophy ontological supervenience that is robustly explainable in a materialistically explainable way

Etymologies

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Blend of super-duper and supervenience, coined by Terence Horgan in a 1993 paper: .

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  • Moreover, even if the definitions were counter-example free, it might well be thought that physicalism requires superdupervenience, that is to say, that physicalism should explain why the relevant global supervenience theses holds (see and Horgan 1993; Melnyk 2003; and Wilson forthcoming).

    Supervenience McLaughlin, Brian 2005

  • When such supervenience is explainable, there is ˜superdupervenience™ (a term coined by William Lycan; see also Schiffer 1987; Horgan 1993; and Wilson

    Supervenience McLaughlin, Brian 2005

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