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    Challenges→Strong global supervenience entails weak global supervenience.

    The modal operators governing 'strong' and 'weak' global supervenience quantify over different ranges of possible worlds, making transitivity through intermediate forms non-trivial.

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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.
    modal operators
    unary connectives
    possible worlds(Leibniz's modal semantics, anticipating contemporary possible-worlds semantics)
    Worlds that have existence in a tenuous sense; fictional worlds used to characterize the nature of possibles that are never actualized
    strong supervenience(Conceded by Kim to not be entailed by global supervenience)
    A supervenience relation where, across all possible worlds, any individual that shares B-properties with another individual also shares A-properties with that individual
    transitivity

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    (Applied to the temporal relation 'earlier than' on a set of worlds W)
    A property of a relation R such that if wRv and vRu, then wRu
    weak supervenience(Violated by world w1 in Petrie's example)
    A supervenience relation where, within a single world, no two individuals can differ in A-properties without differing in B-properties

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