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    It is not the case that Any 'plausible metaphysical principle' doing the entailment work must be independently justified, making the supervenience hierarchy collapse non-trivially expensive.

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    • 1.Some supervenience relations are constitutive rather than inferential; they need no further justifying principle.
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    • 2.The demand for independent justification commits a regress; some base principles are foundational, not circular.
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    • 3.Empirical adequacy of hierarchical systems can justify supervenience without metaphysical principles doing individual entailment work.
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    • 1.Supervenience relations without independent justification are merely stipulative, lacking explanatory force.
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    • 2.Metaphysical principles justify layer-to-layer mappings; unexplained principles multiply rather than reduce explanatory burdens.
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    • 3.Accepting unjustified principles to avoid collapse simply postpones the cost; it reappears at a higher level.
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