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    Supports→A counterexample to strong individual supervenience involving individuals with contested cross-world identity cannot be straightforwardly re-described as a failure of global supervenience without begging the question against Haecceitist ontologies.

    Reanalyzing counterexamples to strong individual supervenience as global supervenience failures presupposes non-haecceitist modal semantics, which the haecceitist rightfully rejects.

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    Key Terms

    Haecceitist(metaphysics/identity)
    Related to the philosophical idea that individual things have a special 'thisness' or identity beyond just their physical properties—so two people could be physically identical but still be fundamentally different individuals.
    Modal semantics(describing Carnap's philosophical approach)
    A system for understanding the meaning of statements that talk about possibility, necessity, and what could or must be true (as opposed to just what is actually true).
    Non-haecceitist(as used in metaphysics)
    Someone who believes that things are only defined by their properties and qualities, not by any special individual identity beyond that.
    counterexamples(as evidence used to challenge the justified true belief analysis)
    Specific cases or scenarios that prove a general claim or definition wrong by showing an exception to the rule.

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    global supervenience(Modal supervenience relations in philosophy of mind and metaphysics)
    A globally supervenes on B if and only if no two possible worlds share the same global pattern of distribution of B-properties while differing in their global pattern of distribution of A-properties.
    strong individual supervenience(Metaphysics of supervenience; contrasted with global supervenience)
    A supervenience relation holding at the level of individual entities, such that any two individuals alike in subvening properties are alike in supervening properties
    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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