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    Challenges→Global supervenience entails strong supervenience when the B-properties include all relational and world-indexed properties, not just intrinsic ones.

    Including relational properties in B-base trivializes the claim—A-properties just become defined via B-relational facts, making supervenience analytic rather than substantive metaphysical insight.

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    Key Terms

    A-properties(McTaggart's argument against the A-series)
    The properties of being present, being past, and being future, which are mutually incompatible
    B-base(metaphysics of time)
    In philosophy of time, the collection of all basic facts about the world that don't depend on whether something is happening 'now'—basically, a complete description of reality without any special focus on the present moment.
    B-relational facts(as used in metaphysics)
    Basic facts about how things relate to or connect with each other, used as the foundation for explaining other facts.
    Substantive metaphysical insight(as used in metaphysics)
    A meaningful discovery about the deep nature of reality, not just something true because of how we've defined our words.
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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.

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