If necessary properties trivially supervene on any property, then supervenience loses its role as a criterion for distinguishing genuine ontological dependence from mere logical artifact.
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(describing the relationship between mental and physical descriptions)
When one set of properties or facts depends entirely on another set—if the lower level doesn't change, the upper level can't change either. Think of it like how a painting's visual appearance supervenes on the exact arrangement of paint molecules; change the molecules and you must change how it looks.
trivially(logic and philosophy generally)
In a way that is obvious, simple, or requires no real explanation—almost like saying 'of course' or 'obviously.'