Examples of supervenience

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But that is true only if the relation is supervenience is symmetric.
Supervenience is a stronger claim than the principles that ban spooky phenomena, and it is stronger than what science licenses.
It does not follow that supervenience does not hold.
Second, the idea of multiple supervenience so characterized is, strictly, incoherent.
It is exactly this position that makes the freedom to command diverse actions consistent with the supervenience thesis.
There is certainly nothing in the supervenience thesis or the free-command thesis that prevents them from taking such a position.
But we quickly find that propositions (4) and (5) are inconsistent with the supervenience thesis.
This, he goes on, is just standard supervenience, whereas options (1) and (3) deny supervenience altogether.
They may or may not be, but a general acceptance of supervenience does not commit us to a general acceptance of type-type identifications.
What we should have done in the article, and will now do here, is deny the generality of supervenience, period.
The gist of the problem is that supervenience, by itself, only guarantees that one kind of fact is 'fixed' by other kinds of fact.
It remains unclear how exactly they construe the mind-brain relation: do they adopt the standard supervenience relation or not?
As materialists, or physicalists, we cannot do this, so it looks like the supervenience relationship has to hold.
And moral obligations might be entirely fixed by the set of nonmoral facts and so there is no violation of the supervenience thesis.
One might try to analyse cases like these as cases of noncausal supervenience of macro- on micro-properties.
The supervenience thesis therefore entails that (7) is true.
So nothing precludes metaphysical identicals from standing in the supervenience relation.
And so we find again that the unrestricted substitution of metaphysical identicals in contexts of supervenience is invalid.
But (d) presents no problem for the consistency of the free-command thesis, the supervenience thesis and divine-command theory.

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