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    Davidson's own reliance on supervenience presupposes a sy... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Anomalous Monism does not inherit the problem of justifying specific identifications between mental and physical events

    Davidson's own reliance on supervenience presupposes a systematic covariance that implicitly demands the kind of identifications AM claims to avoid.

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    • 1.Supervenience requires that identical physical states always produce identical mental states, establishing systematic covariance patterns.
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    • 2.Systematic covariance presupposes reliable mappings between mental and physical properties, implicitly identifying them as correlated pairs.
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    • 3.Anomalous Monism denies such identity relations, making supervenience logically incoherent as its foundational commitment.
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    • 1.Supervenience permits correlation without identity; B-properties can depend on A-properties without reducing to or being identified with them.
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    • 2.Systematic covariance describes dependency relationships, not metaphysical identifications; AM explicitly allows this distinction.
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    • 3.Davidson's view avoids mental-physical identity while accepting psychophysical supervenience; this is a coherent position, not an implicit contradiction.
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