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Schwarz I 111
Humean Supervenience/Schwarz: A minimal version that Lewis would find too weak would be: whenever a world with alien properties in the distribution exactly matches, it also agrees with our in every other (qualitative) aspect. (See the analogous Definition Physicalism (Jackson 1994a, §2 (1) and Chalmers 1996a(2), 38 41).
>Physicalism/Jackson, >Humean World/Jackson, >Supervenience/Jackson,
>Supervenience/Lewis, >Humean World/Lewis, >D. Lewis.

1. F. Jackson [1996]. Finding the mind in the natural world. In: R. Casati, B. Smith and G. White (Eds), Philosophy and the Cognitive Sciences, Vienna
2. David J. Chalmers [1996a]: The Conscious Mind. New York: Oxford University Press.

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