Supervenience
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 130 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5111-8785-3
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In philosophy, supervenience is a kind of dependency relationship. For example, mental states might depend on physical brain states. This dependency is typically held to obtain between sets of properties. A classic example (which is not supported by scientific evidence) is that mental states of pain supervene on 'C-fibers firing'. According to one standard definition, a set of properties A (pain) supervenes on a set of properties B (brain), if and only if any two objects x and y which share all properties in B (are "B-indiscernible") must also share all properties in A (are "A-indiscernible"). In our example, the same brain state necessitates the same pain state. That is, A-properties supervene on B-properties if being B-indiscernible implies being A-indiscernible. The reverse does not hold: the same pain state could be "multiply realizable" by different brain states. That is, if A-properties supervene on B-properties, being A-indiscernible...