Including relational properties in B-base trivializes the claim—A-properties just become defined via B-relational facts, making supervenienceanalytic rather than substantive metaphysical insight.
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(Used to establish that males exist if bachelors exist)
A sentence or truth that holds in virtue of meaning alone, such that the predicate is contained in the subject concept.
relational properties(Contrasted with intrinsic properties in the property-dualist two-aspects theory)
Properties of objects that appear to us and are spatial and temporal
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.