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    It is not the case that Kim's concession was directed at a weaker formulation of global supervenience that does not require preservation of all relational properties across worlds.

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    • 1.Excluding relational properties arbitrarily divides the physical world into privileged intrinsic and dismissible relational components.
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    • 2.If relational properties supervene on intrinsic ones, then true global supervenience should preserve them without special concessions.
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    • 3.Weakening supervenience undermines its explanatory purpose: to explain how mental facts depend on underlying physical reality completely.
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    • 1.Relational properties depend on external entities that may not exist across all possible worlds, making their preservation impossible.
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    • 2.Weakening supervenience to exclude relations allows physicalism to accommodate counterfactuals involving different external objects.
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    • 3.Kim's concession preserves the core supervenience claim—intrinsic properties determine all intrinsic facts—while avoiding implausible constraints.
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