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    Any counterexample to strong individual supervenience can be isolated to generate a counterexample to weak global supervenience

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    • 1.Paull and Sider's isolation principle holds
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    • 2.A counterexample to strong individual supervenience consists of a case where B-properties are preserved but A-properties are not across individuals
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    • 3.Isolation allows such a case to be extended to a pair of worlds between which there is a B-preserving isomorphism but no A-preserving one
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    • 1.The isolation principle presupposes that any locally coherent configuration of B-properties can be embedded in a possible world as a self-contained duplicate.
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    • 2.Holistic metaphysical frameworks (e.g., Bradley's internal relations, certain interpretations of quantum entanglement ontology) entail that some B-property distributions are nomologically or metaphysically inseparable from their global context.
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    • 3.If B-property configurations cannot be freely isolated into worlds without altering their relational character, the Paull-Sider construction fails to generate the required globally divergent world-pair.
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    • 1.Global supervenience is defined over entire possible worlds, whose individuation conditions may not reduce to aggregates of individual-level property assignments.
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    • 2.David Lewis's counterpart theory and Haecceitism debates show that world-level isomorphism and individual-level property preservation can come apart depending on one's theory of trans-world identity.
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    • 3.A counterexample to strong individual supervenience involving individuals with contested cross-world identity cannot be straightforwardly re-described as a failure of global supervenience without begging the question against Haecceitist ontologies.
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    Both Shagrir (2002) and Bennett (2004a) argue that strong individual supervenience is equivalent to strong global supervenience when A and B are sets of intrinsic properties. Bennett also argues that in such a case even weak global supervenience entails strong individual supervenience. The argument relies upon Paull and Sider’s isolation principle, explained in Section 4.3.1 above; the basic idea is to show that any counterexamples to strong individual supervenience can be “isolated” to generate
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