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    Supervenience is a dependency relation that requires a no... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Necessary properties and impossible properties supervene on any property whatsoever.

    Supervenience is a dependency relation that requires a non-trivial explanatory or modal connection between the supervening and base properties.

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    • 1.Mere covariation without explanation fails to distinguish supervenience from brute coincidence or correlation.
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    • 2.Modal connection ensures supervening properties couldn't differ without base property differences, grounding necessity.
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    • 3.Mental properties supervening on physical properties requires explanatory link; otherwise physicalism lacks coherence.
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    • 1.Standard definitions of supervenience require only covariation; adding explanatory demands goes beyond the concept itself.
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    • 2.Modal connection may be too strong: numerical identity facts supervene on spatiotemporal facts but lack explanatory basis.
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    • 3.Requiring non-trivial explanation creates vagueness about what counts as 'trivial,' making the account empirically untestable.
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