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    It is not the case that Supervenience physicalism avoids the problem that type physicalism faces with institutional properties

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    • 1.Supervenience without identity merely redescribes the explanatory gap rather than closing it, leaving the grounding relation between institutional and physical properties unexplained.
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    • 2.If supervenience is brute and inexplicable, physicalism about institutional properties collapses into a form of property dualism that abandons genuine physicalist reduction.
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    • 1.Institutional properties like legal jurisdiction are constitutively dependent on collective intentionality and social recognition, which themselves resist supervenience on purely microphysical base properties.
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    • 2.Searle's analysis shows that the same physical configuration can fail to instantiate an institutional property absent the right social context, violating the necessity condition supervenience requires.
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    • 1.Supervenience physicalism entails only that a property such as having a legal power over lower courts supervenes on physical properties, not that it is identical with a physical property
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    • 2.Type physicalism requires identity between every property and some physical property, which is implausible for institutional or relational properties
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