Lexicon of Arguments

 Philosophical and Scientific Issues in Dispute
 
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I 146
Supervenience/Searle: the concept of supervenience stems from ethics: moral property sits supposedly opposite of natural properties (Moore). There must be a feature, why something is better, but not causation but constitution by this feature.
>Causation, >Constitution.
Supervenience: a) mind completely dependent on physique - b) physical equality guarantees mental equality, but not vice versa.
Mind-Body Problem/Searle: only causality is important: micro (physique) causes macro (mind) (from bottom to top, bottom-up).
>Mind/Body-problem.
SearleVsSupervenience: supervenience is thereby superfluous. Strength is causally supervenient in contrast to the given molecular structure, but thereby not epiphenomenal. >Epiphenomenalism.
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Graeser I 160
Supervenience/Searle/Graeser: supervenience corresponds with sufficient but not with necessary conditions.
>Sufficiency.
Davidson: sets: a predicate P is supervenient in relation to a set of predicates S iff P differentiates no entities, which cannot be distinguished by S as well.

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