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    Challenges→Global supervenience entails strong supervenience when the B-properties include all relational and world-indexed properties, not just intrinsic ones.

    World-indexing properties conflates levels of description. If B-properties include 'being in world W', this presupposes the very B-completeness needed to establish strong supervenience, risking circularity.

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    Key Terms

    B-completeness(metaphysics)
    The idea that once you've fully described all the intrinsic, non-dependent properties of something, you've completely described everything about it.
    B-properties(metaphysics (part of debates about the nature of reality))
    Properties (characteristics) of something that are absolute or intrinsic, not dependent on which world or perspective you're in—as opposed to 'A-properties' which might be relative.
    Circularity (or circular reasoning)(describing a flaw in the logic used to identify Dicaearchus as an author)
    When an argument uses its own conclusion as proof, like saying 'this book is true because the book says so'—it goes in circles instead of proving anything new.
    Levels of description(as different perspectives for analyzing disorders (biological versus personal))
    Different ways of explaining the same thing depending on how zoomed-in or zoomed-out you are—like describing a painting at the level of individual brushstrokes versus the level of the overall composition.

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    World-indexing properties(metaphysics and possible worlds)
    Characteristics or features of something that depend on which possible world or scenario you're talking about—like how 'being cold' might be true in one imaginary world but false in another.
    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

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