Enç's account of reductive dependence shares structural features with Kim's supervenience, suggesting his 'causation' talk is shorthand for ontological priority, not causal production.
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(Discussed in relation to whether functionalist explanatory priority commits one to a stronger metaphysical claim)
The claim that one type of entity (e.g., social structures) is more fundamental in its existence than another (e.g., individuals)
supervenience(Philosophy of mind and reduction; contrasted with full reduction)
A relation in which mental (or higher-level) states are dependent on physiological (or lower-level) states such that any two cases with identical lower-level bases are identical in their higher-level states; a necessary but not sufficient condition for reduction.