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    Plausible metaphysical principles may entail that whenever a global supervenience thesis holds, a weak or strong supervenience thesis also holds.

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    • 1.A global supervenience thesis does not entail weak or strong supervenience by logical form alone.
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    • 2.Metaphysical principles beyond logical form can establish connections between supervenience theses.
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    • 1.Kim's (1984) counterexamples show global supervenience is compatible with radical property-level variance across worlds, blocking strong supervenience.
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    • 2.Metaphysical principles strong enough to close this gap would themselves presuppose modal constraints stronger than global supervenience licenses.
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    • 1.Paull and Sider (1992) demonstrated formally that global supervenience does not entail even weak supervenience without auxiliary assumptions about world-cardinality.
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    • 2.Any 'plausible metaphysical principle' doing the entailment work must be independently justified, making the supervenience hierarchy collapse non-trivially expensive.
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    Paull and Sider pointed out that these argument strategies are no good (1992). The problem is that one cannot simply point to two worlds that do not themselves falsify a global supervenience thesis, and then claim that the case is compatible with that thesis. Those two worlds might entail the existence of other worlds that are not compatible with the global supervenience thesis. A global supervenience thesis is a claim about all worlds, not just two. The upshot is that although a global superven
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