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    Necessary properties and impossible properties supervene ... — Carmelics
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    Necessary properties and impossible properties supervene on any property whatsoever.

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    • 1.No two things can differ with respect to necessary or impossible properties.
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    • 2.If no two things can differ with respect to a property P, then no two things can differ with respect to P without also differing with respect to any property set B.
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    • 3.Supervenience holds when there can be no difference in A-properties without a difference in B-properties.
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    • 1.Supervenience is a dependency relation that requires a non-trivial explanatory or modal connection between the supervening and base properties.
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    • 2.A relation holding vacuously—because necessary properties admit no variation across any possible worlds—fails to establish genuine dependency.
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    • 3.Therefore, the 'supervenience' of necessary properties on any base is not real supervenience but a degenerate case that should be excluded by a well-formed definition.
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    • 1.Kim's own analysis distinguishes weak, strong, and global supervenience precisely to capture substantive covariation, not logical triviality.
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    • 2.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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    • 3.Philosophers like Jaegwon Kim and Frank Jackson explicitly intend supervenience to track explanatory relationships, so trivial cases should be ruled out as theoretically idle.
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    Another way to see that the conditionals are false is to notice that properties everything has necessarily and ones that nothing can possibly have supervene, with the same sort of necessity, on any property whatsoever. (The fact that the necessary and the impossible supervene on anything and everything arguably poses a problem for attempts to use supervenience to define physicalism. See Section 5.4.) The property being self-identical supervenes on the property being an antique; the property be
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