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    Challenges→Global supervenience fails to entail weak individual supervenience

    Petrie's example relies on a non-standard individuation of properties that most physicalists would reject as gerrymandered.

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    • 1.Standard physicalist property individuation requires natural, physically-grounded boundaries, not arbitrary disjunctions.
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    • 2.Petrie's property definitions appear to be constructed specifically to make counterexamples work, lacking independent motivation.
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    • 3.Gerrymandered properties lack causal homogeneity and don't figure in genuine physical laws or explanations.
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    • 1.Physicalists already accept disjunctive properties in multiple realizability cases, so rejecting Petrie's seems inconsistent.
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    • 2.The distinction between 'natural' and 'gerrymandered' properties itself lacks clear philosophical grounding.
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    • 3.If Petrie's properties are conceptually coherent, whether they're gerrymandered shouldn't determine their legitimacy.
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