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    Kim's own formulations in 'Supervenience and Mind' leave ... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Strong global supervenience entails intermediate global supervenience.

    Kim's own formulations in 'Supervenience and Mind' leave the existence of inter-world isomorphisms as a substantive metaphysical assumption, not a logical guarantee, breaking the entailment.

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    Key Terms

    Inter-world isomorphisms(Used to describe whether different possible scenarios have matching structures)
    A technical way of saying that different possible worlds (imaginary scenarios) have the same basic structure or pattern, so they match up in important ways.
    Kim(the philosopher whose account is being described)
    Jaegwon Kim, an influential philosopher who developed detailed theories about how to understand and categorize events, properties, and objects in the world.
    Logical guarantee(Contrasted with the idea that something is merely assumed rather than necessarily true)
    Something that absolutely must be true based on the rules of logic alone, with no exceptions possible.
    entailment(Conceptualist framework)
    Understood in terms of truth at a world
    metaphysical assumption

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    (metaphysics (the study of what exists))
    A belief about what fundamentally exists or what reality is really made of that you're taking for granted without proving it.
    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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