(Global) Supervenience: Properties A (globally) supervene
on properties B if, and only if: Among worlds where no natural properties
alien to our world are instantiated, no two differ with respect to A properties
without differing with respect to B properties; any two such worlds that
are exactly alike in their B properties are exactly alike in their A properties
as well.
Minimal Physicalism: The view that all mental properties
supervene on physical properties.
Multiple Realizability: Properties A are multiply realized
with respect to properties B if, and only if: i) A properties
are “realized in” B properties (minimally: A properties supervene
on B properties), and ii) each A property is co-extensive with multiple
B properties.
One-way Necessitation (roughly, Non-reductionism): This
is the combination of Minimal Physicalism and Multiple Realizability.
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