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    Challenges→Supervenience physicalism articulates only a necessary condition for physicalism, not a sufficient one

    A relation can hold between two things of completely different natures

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    But the most influential objection to supervenience physicalism (and to modal formulations generally) is what might be called the sufficiency problem. This alleges that, while (1) articulates a necessary condition for physicalism it does not provide a sufficient condition. The underlying rationale is that, intuitively one thing can supervene on another and yet be of a completely different nature. To use Fine’s famous (1994) example, consider the difference between Socrates and his singleton set,

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