supervenience
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- History
- Definitions
- Varieties of supervenience
- Examples of supervenient properties
- Value properties
- Mental properties
- Computational properties
- Biological properties
- Arguments against supervenience-based formulations of physicalism
- Epiphenomenal ectoplasm
- The lone ammonium molecule problem
- Modal status
- Problem of necessary beings
- See also
- Notes
- External links
thumb|right|The upper levels on this chart can be considered to supervene on the lower levels.
In philosophy, supervenience refers to a relation between sets of properties or sets of facts. X is said to supervene on Y if and only if some difference in Y is necessary for any difference in X to be possible.
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